These are the most important Windows 10 keyboard shortcuts you should know

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Only 9 days left until the official launch of Windows 10 and the wait has become long. Undoubtedly, the numerous Builds that Microsoft has been publishing in recent months have created sufficient expectation in the user community for the launch of this new system. And how each new system is included new features y others are redesigned, Microsoft has not hesitated to provide those most recurrent with a keyboard shortcut that allows us to access them in a more comfortable and simple way.

Shortcuts are key combinations that allow us to directly access applications or execute frequent commands (they work similar to a macro). Since the appearance of Windows, they have always been present in one way or another in each of its versions and, although they have varied slightly between their editions, with each revision we have sought a way to provide the best possible productivity.

Here is a list of those that we have considered most useful and frequent due to their use in the system.

Open Task View: WIN + TAB

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One of the best known and perhaps most useful shortcuts It is the one that allows the change of view between the active tasks. Available from Windows Vista where the Flip-3D window manager was invoked, this time it has been optimized to be a powerful window manager, which runs away from the old Vista manager and the Metro application manager that was used in Windows 8 and Windows 8.1 In this latest version, a column was shown on the left with the modern apps that were active, completely bypassing the desktop applications, since it was considered an application in itself and therefore losing its practical value.

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With Windows 10, the Task View shortcut is more useful than before. A powerful graphical interface is invoked for window management that will treat both desktop applications and modern apps in a similar way, being able to switch between them or close them with just one click of our mouse.

What's more. It will also be possible to order them or move between the different desktops through the drag and drop function by passing the mouse over them.

Another novelty What is included is that no longer need to hold the key combination when invoking the manager. We can release the buttons and focus on our work.

Open Action Center: WIN + A

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Another new shortcut What Windows 10 brings us is access to the Notification Center. Located on the right of the screen, it is a new interface that allows you to check all the recent notifications that occur, to use as we would with our mobile phone. The shortcuts in this menu are not customizable at the moment, but maybe this feature will come later with some system update. 3

There is also access to frequent options such as activating Wi-Fi or Bluetooth on our device. From this section we can temporarily activate and deactivate notifications, activate airplane mode, activate energy saving mode or access the configuration of our system. A shortcut has even been included so you can create notes with the OneNote app.

Call Cortana: WIN + Q / WIN + C

Cortana It is one of the main novelties that are included in Windows 10 and it is logical that this wizard has its own shortcut. In fact, there are two ways to invoke it through our terminal:

  • WIN+Q: Shows the Cortana interface and allows you to enter text type queries, something equivalent to clicking on the Cortana icon or the search box.
  • Win + C.: Activates voice searches, which causes the system to wait for our instructions, showing an interface similar to the following.

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Multiple desktop management: WIN + Crtl

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Another novelty Windows 10 important is the possibility of organize windows on multiple virtual desktops. These desktops can be managed from the "task view" or Task View (WIN + Tab key), as we explained above, but Microsoft has also implemented other specific shortcuts to manage multiple desktops, which are the following:

  • WIN + Ctrl + D: Create a new desktop.
  • WIN + Ctrl + Left / Right Arrow: It allows us to move quickly between the desks. If we are on desktop 1 and we press the shortcut with the right arrow, we will move to desktop 2, and vice versa.
  • WIN + Ctrl + F4: Close the current desktop, and move the applications that are on it to the previous desktop (for example, if we close desktop 3, the applications and the screen are moved to desktop 2).

Connect to wireless devices: WIN + K

Added shortcut to a menu to connect monitors (with Miracast support) and audio devices (Bluetooth) wirelessly.

System configuration: WIN + I

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To conclude with this summary of the main Windows 10 shortcuts, we want to show another shortcut that, although it does not seem very impressive, is important in order to change its behavior compared to previous versions of Windows.

In Windows 8, the WIN + I keys They led us to a specific options menu for the application that we had open, but in Windows 10 these keys open the System Settings in a new window.

Apparently, there is no longer a single keyboard shortcut to open options in modern applications.

Other considerations to take into account

Como in Windows 10 it has disappeared the bar of «charms», several keyboard shortcuts that were associated with it have also ceased to exist or have changed their behavior.

However, the shortcuts that remain from the previous version of this operating system are:

  • WIN+H: Shortcut for sharing content in modern applications. It is still valid.
  • WIN+C: Shortcut to open charms. It was replaced by the shortcut to Cortana's voice search.
  • WIN+F: File search. It no longer works, but we can search for files from Cortana using WIN + Q, or WIN + C.
  • WIN+W: Search for system options. It no longer works, but instead we can press WIN + I and start typing (the Settings search box will be activated immediately), or use Cortana.
  • WIN+Z: Open the "app bar" in Windows 8 apps. It still works in some apps, but Windows 10 universal apps no longer support it.
  • WIN+K: It opened the Devices panel in the toolbar charms Windows 8. That panel no longer exists, and therefore the shortcut is now used for another function (connecting wireless devices). The other functions contained in this panel can be invoked with the shortcuts CTRL+P(print) and WIN+P (choose how to project the screen).

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