Category: Shortcut Of The Week

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.

Leaving your desk? Student at your back? Fire alarm going off? Quickly lock your screen with this key combination. You will then require the password to unlock your computer.

An alternative to the traditional Windows + M to minimise all windows, but does the same job. Not too exciting this one.