21 handy desktop shortcuts that every one must know

These days are very interested to use shortcut keys & some friends asked me to list it, so i listed out the top 21 & we will blog the whole shortcut keys list later. Now let us see the top 21 desktop shortcut keys

1. Windows key + E = Explorer
2. Windows key + Break = System properties
3. Windows key + F = Search
4. Windows key + D = Hide/Display all windows
5. ALT + Tab = Switch between windows
6. ALT, Space, X = Maximize window
7. CTRL + Shift + Esc = Task Manager
8. CTRL + C = Copy
9. CTRL + X = Cut
10. CTRL + V = Paste
11. CTRL + Z = Undo an action
12. CTRL + Y = Redo an action
13. CTRL + A =Select all items in a document or window
14. F1 = Display Help
15. F2 = Rename the selected item
16. F3 = Search for a file or folder
17. F4 = Display the Address bar list in Windows Explorer
18. F5 = Refresh the active window
19. F6 = Cycle through screen elements in a window or on the desktop
20. F10 = Activate the menu bar in the active program

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Thanks for viewing!! I will try to list all shortcuts soon insha Allah

thanks for being patient

Automatic Shortcut Viewer For Removable Storage Media In Desktop

You might have seen in Linux based OS like Ubuntu, whenever you insert a removable storage media in to your computer a shortcut to the storage device automatically appears in the desktop. If you are one of those who are keenly interested to get such feature in your Windows 7 or Windows XP or Windows Vista than have a rest on reading this article.

There are some free software that helps you to make this thing really possible. Upon researching various tools like these, I found one of them very useful and worthy to use.

This freeware I am talking about provide the user with automatic shortcuts to their USB and other drives that appear and disappear from the desktop as the user plugs their media in and out. The hero’s name is Desktop Media.

The best thing about this utility is that it uses very small amount of your Randomly Accessed Memory.

Automatic shortcut created

When drive is removed

Besides usual removable media shortcuts you can also add network shortcuts and even shortcut to your fixed drive.

To enable the plug and play shortcut just download and install the 300 KB file from the link below

Download the Desktop Media

The system tray icon will always show up in the system tray or notification area.

If you don’t want to see Desktop Media in system tray you can hide it from the options menu. Right click on the Desktop Media icon and choose Options, uncheck Show Tray Icon.

Hope this tutorial was helpful and useful.