Lesser known desktop shortcuts

These are simple shortcuts but interesting as we don't use it generally. These do save a lot of your time.

Most of us know Cntrl + C , Cntrl + V , etc etc... but only few of us know the below ones... Enjoy reading!!

1. Double clicking top left corner of any window closes it.
2. Adding "Shift" to any keyboard shortcut generally reverses the effect. e.g. Space can be used to scroll down a webpage. Shift+Space scrolls up.
3. You can rename files/folders by F2, for renaming next file without hitting ENTER press the TAB key. This actually saves a lot of time when renaming multiple files.
   
4. Winkey + PrnScrn to take a screenshot of the screen. It saves the screenshots under Libraries\Pictures\Screenshots Folder. (On Windows 8)
5. PrnScrn without pressing the WinButton saves the screenshot to the clipboard. If one presses Alt+PrnScrn, only the active window is saved, which can be useful sometimes.
6. Ever wondered how to get the Start Menu, without using the Win Key? Try Ctrl+Esc !
7. To Launch first through ninth icon on taskbar, including items pinned to taskbar, press Winkey + 1 ... Winkey + 9
8. You can create a shortcut to applications, but do you know that you can assign them as Keyboard shortcuts? Right click on the created shortcut (To any application) and assign a keyboard shortcu  
9. The shortcut to open the task manager is ctrl+shift+esc.
10. You don't have to press ctrl+alt+del and select task manager!
11. WinKey + E: Open computer.
12. WinKey + L: Lock computer.
13. Win key + Tab to switch between open windows.
14. Win key + X opens a list of useful shortcuts in Win8.
15. WinKey + An arrow key: Tile current window in direction of arrow
16. F3: Search
17. Ctrl+w (Command+w for mac) closes your current window or tab WAY faster than you can click it. Sometimes one tenth of a second matters...
18. Alt+Enter opens up Properties dialog(of files/folders etc).
19. Alt + space opens the menu for the active window after that :

                c : close the window
                x : maimize & unmximize the window
                n : minimize the window

    20. Ctrl + Shift + t : open the last closed tab

    21. Ctrl + d : bookmark a page

    22. Ctrl + backspace : deletes whole word

    23. Press CTRL+R to refresh your web-page.

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http://hangout4fun.blogspot.in/2014/07/facebook-shortcuts.html