Windows 8 50 keyboard shortcuts

Windows 8 is the latest alms from Microsoft and has reinvented itself as an operating arrangement for both book and PC users. While touchscreen users can yield advantage of the abounding abyssal rewrites e.g. the Charms Menu, Metro UI with tiles, and swipes, Microsoft has aswell done their allotment to ensure that users who adopt accepting about with the keyboard would not be larboard out.

To baby to this group, Microsoft has chip new keyboard shortcuts to let them cross through the reconstructed OS faster and easier. And as abundant fun as touchscreens can be, sometimes you can do added with keyboard shortcuts than you can with swipes. Besides, if you are allotment of the keyboard generation, shortcuts just appear added by itself anyways.

Read on for 50 keyboard shortcuts that you apparently acquisition yourself application on Windows 8, if out of bash mode.

Shortcut	Description
Windows Key + D	Show Desktop
Windows Key + C	Open Charms Menu
Windows Key + F	Charms Menu – Search
Windows Key + H	Charms Menu – Share
Windows Key + K	Charms Menu – Devices
Windows Key + I	Charms Menu – Settings
Windows Key + Q	Search For Installed Apps
Windows Key + W	Search Settings
Windows Key + Tab	Cycle through open Modern UI Apps
Windows Key + Shift + Tab	Cycle through open Modern UI Apps in reverse order
Windows Key + .	Snaps app to the right (split screen multitasking)
Windows Key + Shift + .	Snaps app to the left (split screen multitasking)
Windows Key + ,	Temporarily view desktop
Alt + F4	Quit Modern UI Apps
Windows Key + E	Launch Windows Explorer Window
Windows Key + L	Lock PC and go to lock screen
Windows Key + T	Cycle through icons on taskbar (press Enter to launch app)
Windows Key + X	Show Advanced Windows Settings Menu
Windows Key + E	Launch Windows Explorer Window
Windows Key + Page Down	Moves Start screen and apps to secondary monitor on the right
Windows Key + M	Minimize all Windows
Windows Key + Shift + M	Restore all minimized Windows
Windows Key + R	Open Run dialog box
Windows Key + Up Arrow	Maximize current window
Windows Key + Down Arrow	Minimize current window
Windows Key + Left Arrow	Maximize current window to left side of the screen
Windows Key + Right Arrow	Maximize current window to right side of the screen
Ctrl + Shift + Escape	Open Task Manager
Windows Key + Print Screen	Takes a Print Screen and saves it to your Pictures folder
Windows Key + Page Up	Moves Start screen and apps to secondary monitor on the left
Windows Key + Pause Break	Display System Properties
Shift + Delete	Permanently delete files without sending it to Recycle Bin
Windows Key + F1	Open Windows Help and Support
Windows Key + V	Cycle through notifications
Windows Key + Shift + V	Cycle through notifications in reverse order
Windows Key + 0 to 9	Launch/show app pinned to taskbar at indicated number
Windows Key + Shift + 0 to9	Launch new instance of app pinned to taskbar at indicated number
Alt + Enter	Display Properties of selected item in File Explorer
Alt + Up Arrow	View upper level folder of current folder in File Explorer
Alt + Right Arrow	View next folder in File Explorer
Alt + Left Arrow	View previous folder in File Explorer
Windows Key + P	Choose secondary display modes
Windows Key + U	Open Ease of Access Center
Alt + Print Screen	Print Screen focused Window only
Windows Key + Spacebar	Switch input language and keyboard layout
Windows Key + Shift +Spacebar	Switch to previous input language and keyboard layout
Windows Key + Enter	Open Narrator
Windows Key + +	Zoom in using Magnifier
Windows Key + -	Zoom out using Magnifier
Windows Key + Escape	Exit Magnifier

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PC problem? Try OSForensics 2.0

Passmark Software has appear OSForensics 2.0, the latest copy of its accomplished computer forensics package. And while it's added about convalescent on what's gone afore than abacus any above new functionality, there are still some actual advantageous additions here.

While ahead the affairs could alone basis the abstracts on one drive at a time, for instance, OSForensics 2.0 now allows you to specify as abounding drives per basis as you like, and seek them in a individual operation later: seems like a baby change, but this makes the affairs abundant added acceptable to use.

If you consistently use the indexing affection again the acceptable account is it's no best all-important to configure its accomplished data anniversary and every time. A new Arrangement advantage allows you to ascertain the book extensions you'd like to check, what absolutely you'd like to basis (title, content, book name, metadata), exclude filters, stemming rules and more, and you can again reload the arrangement you charge for a accurate job in a brace of clicks.

And while indexing itself can still yield a actual continued time, bigger caching agency book searches can sometimes be as abundant as 500% faster than the antecedent release.

Elsewhere, there accept been assorted improvements to the email, raw deejay and centralized book viewers. Abounding are small, but still actual welcome, such as the new adeptness to maximise the book eyewitness window. And a added key change sees the affairs now able to accessible Office abstracts directly, addition absolute footfall which should decidedly advance performance.

The OSForensics centralized web browser has been continued with the adeptness to add or save complete web pages, as able-bodied as a arena of the screen.

And there are the accepted assemblage of abate enhancements, from achievement improvements with FAT volumes, to added affinity with Opera, and a diffuse account of bug fixes (the official What'New page tells all).

What hasn't changed, though, is the acceptable licensing model, area an astronomic bulk of functionality is accessible for free, with alone basal restrictions (the new web page images accept watermarks, for instance).

OSForensics 2.0 offers book seek tools, undelete functions, anamnesis and deejay viewers, countersign accretion options, drive imaging accoutrement and a accomplished lot more, for instance, so you may acquisition the affairs advantageous even if you've no specific absorption in computer forensics. Yield a look: it's one of the a lot of able chargeless accoutrement of its affectionate accessible anywhere.

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Windows Phone 7.8 due to roll out on Jan 31st

The Windows Phone 7.8 update will arrive on handsets such as the Nokia Lumia 900 and Lumia 800 by the end of the month.

Handsets stuck on Windows Phone 7.5 have not been treated to the plush Windows Phone 8 OS which is reserved for new handsets. Version 7.8 their only salvation, but it's been slow coming.


UK carrier O2 tweeted last week: "The 7.8 Windows Phone update will be released by the end of January and will be available via Zone."

Microsoft which confirmed that "the Windows Phone 7.8 update will arrive by the end of the month January."

Over in Columbia however the Windows Phone team seem more certain over the Windows Phone 7.8 release date, posting on its Facebook page that the update will arrive on January 31.

We've also been in contact with Nokia over the update who told us: "Windows Phone 7.8 is becoming available on new phones around the world, and Microsoft has announced it is working to get the software update tested, approved and rolled out to as many devices as possible early this year.

                          "Exact time frames for rollout will be announced in due course"

It usually takes a few weeks for an update to hit every handset, so you may be looking at mid-February before you're treated to Windows Phone 7.8, although carriers can potentially delay the roll out as they run their own tests before offering it to customers.

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