15 Amazing Shortcuts You Aren't Using

You know we all have that friend or coworker whose computer skills make us feel like a Neanderthal as soon as they touch the mouse their screen lights up with all kinds of tasks and charts and their fingers move at lightning speed on that keyboard they even have time casually chat with Siri or Cortana and stream games afterwards, but this isn't witchcraft, your friend is simply a genius when it comes to hotkeys and you can be too. Let's start with a skill that every computer science teacher needs to know. Number one: create a virtual desktop. You are in the middle of some work or research project that you have been doing all day and you need to take care of another task immediately.

Opening new tabs in Windows will only slow you down and ruin your workflow, which is why you need a clean new desktop. Well, just press the Windows key plus control plus d or control plus up, if you're

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a Mac, it'll switch to a new new desktop and you'll be ready to go with number two, switching between virtual desktops, okay, but where's all that? valuable work? What we were doing before, is it gone forever? Oh, don't panic, he's just hiding to get it back. Press the Windows key plus control or the control key on a Mac.

You can now switch between all the virtual desktops you have created

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the left and right keys. right arrow keys when you are done with the second task, make sure you no longer need that desktop. You can close it by pressing the Windows key plus control plus F4 on a Mac, hold down the option key and click the x signs that appear over any open desktop spaces to close them number three return to the desktop from applications if you have too many open applications and you need to use another hidden behind all those windows on your desktop, you don't need to minimize them all one by one, you can minimize them all at once by pressing the Windows key plus m.

You can also take a look at your desktop with the Windows key plus a comma or the command plus f3 for operating systems. This is a useful little trick if you work with desktop widget information or if you really need to take a break for a second and look at the fluffy kitties or fields of soothing green grass you use as your desktop background. Oh, number four, open an app from the taskbar if you want much faster access to your most used apps. Consider keeping them on your taskbar it will speed up your workflow even more if you use the following combination: the Windows key plus a number key a deny each number represents an application on your taskbar from left to right and this combination will display the necessary apps one, unfortunately, there is no similar hotkey for the operating system, but I am pretty sure that Mac users are quite happy with the

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Mac app navigation.

Split screen number five between two apps want to see a magic trick try this open an app you need for your work and press windows key plus left arrow then open another app and click windows key plus right arrow now two windows share their screen fact-checking your academic work while looking directly at your sources no problem doing Photoshop while watching videos on the bright side easy, number six switching apps, there are several ways to effectively switch from one app to another and manage them on your desktop using hotkeys, pressing control plus alt plus tab will show you all the applications currently running on your PC again.

Mac is known for boosting the app browsing game. so it's a little bit easier on the os it's just control plus tab another way to open task view press the windows key plus tab this is the pc equivalent to mission control max provides a wider view of windows open and available desktops and it is much more convenient to use and finally there is the alt plus tab hotkey or command plus tab on a Mac which will allow you to swap programs without previously displaying them like a deck of cards if you work with just a couple of windows at a time, this one is for you. seven program management and troubleshooting, we're going to do some troubleshooting, now listen carefully because you're going to want to remember this.

Everyone has been there. A program is stuck and won't process anything, even if you cry, beg, or try to bribe it to do so. Avoid restarting your device and losing all your progress, try using the following combo control plus shift plus escape or command plus option plus escape if you are working on a Mac, it will open the task manager which will help you force quit any app that doesn't work correctly or stop the ones that don't respond losing some data from a bad program is not the same as losing all the data from all of them number eight open file explorer not all of your applications need to be available all the time so you can work more quick some of them are standard programs built into your computer and there is a quick and convenient way to access them by pressing the Windows key plus and open the file manager window on your PC for Mac users.

This is your search app 9. Use the magnifying glass you've never dreamed of. become one of those television detectives who can find anything in any image, no matter how small the image is, improve it. I need a 10x zoom. Yes, you can totally do it on your computer. The Windows key combined with the plus or minus key will open the magnifying glass. app that allows you to zoom in and out wherever you point the cursor. The same goes for Mac OS, but you should use the combination of all the commands and more to zoom in, but don't expect to catch any criminals from the little inverted reflection that bounces around. of an earring or something number 10 take screenshots oh, you found that little piece of evidence, well you better collect it use the Windows key plus print screen to take a screenshot and immediately save it to the pictures folder on your HDD.

Mac also lets you take screenshots by pressing Command plus Shift plus three, but for you it gets even cooler if you press four instead of three, you'll be able to choose which part of your desktop you want to take a photo of or even take a screenshot of. display of only an exact window number. 11 Use Action Center Configure Bluetooth Connect with devices on your network Use your PC as a Wi-Fi hotspot Turn notifications on and off Those and many other features and there are newer versions of Windows available in a place called Action Center for Open it simultaneously press the window key plus one for Mac users, your notification center is always a click away in the top right corner. 12.

Access Settings If you need more settings or access to more advanced parameters of your PC, you can have it all by using the Windows key plus I to do just that 13. Talk to Cortana or Siri Task Managers Thorough Investigators Life Organizers interesting conversation partners nowadays computers come with a personal assistant literally built into siri and Cortana they can do it all and you can call them with just one touch to open Cortana in windows in listening mode press the windows key plus c and to invoke siri in mac os hold down command and space together hey siri 14. use windows game bar so you've been working hard all day to open these desktops and all that. come home and it's time to relax with a nice gaming session and here comes that exciting moment when you finally beat that crazy boss fight or you and your friends had a fun exchange or an epic battle in the online game that they are playing together, ah yes Only you can capture that moment forever.

Well, you actually have everything you need right in the Game Bar feature on your PC. You can open it at any time by pressing the Windows key plus g to set up recording manually, but that's not all there is to the Game Bar. It has a hotkey to start and stop recording, just press Windows plus Alt plus R. You can even start streaming by pressing the windows key plus alt plus b. mac os also has its own feature to capture videos and it is really easy to use, press shift plus command plus 5 to record screen using Quicktime Player 15.

Lock your PC, let's say you share a computer with your family or co-workers and you have You've spent the whole day looking for the perfect gift for your mom or slacking off at work and don't want anyone to know if you suddenly need to get away from the computer but don't want anyone prying into your things. You can quickly lock your user profile by simply pressing the Windows key plus l or shift plus the command plus q on a Mac, just make sure you set your password first and don't forget it. Cool, hey, hey, what hotkeys make your time on the computer smoother and faster.

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