Category: Shortcut Of The Week

I use this a lot. If you want to capture a portion of your screen, hit this and you can drag a box around it to copy to your clipboard as a Snippet. If you hover a mouse over something, Continue Reading

Bypass having to use the Ctrl + Alt + Del screen and quickly access the task manager when you are trying to close that game to make it into a Teams meeting that you have missed the first 5 minutes Continue Reading

A fun one for Christmas, using Windows + . you open the panel that lets you select an emoji! Good for Teams chats where a picture can save a lot of explanation.

Working on multiple monitors? Plugged your laptop into a new classrooms and the display is not set correctly? This shortcut brings up the display options to change whether you extend or duplicate your displays.

A nice little addition to copy and past, you can activate this to have everything you have recently copied to the clipboard available to you. This can be useful when working between pages or spreadsheets.

Switched to Windows 11 and lost your settings key? You can open the quick access menu using this one. This also includes some more advanced settings areas so do not play with this one too much unless you know what Continue Reading

You might be using the virtual desktop switcher to flip between them. But there is another way! Use Windows + Ctrl and the ‘direction’ of the desktop to open it up.

Finished on your virtual desktop? You can close it using the desktop switching, or just close an empty virtual desktop using Windows Key + Ctrl + F4.

Want to open something not in your current workspace? You can open a virtual desktop in the background to run a process, then access it using Windows and Tab.

Get quick access to your File Explorer with this one. Your files will open up for quick access to, well, everything.