- Win Logo + Number Bar (1 - 0 on top of the keyboard)
- Open the respective application on the taskbar
- Win + E Opens the File Explorer, useful to have more than just the 10 possible shortcuts that you get with Win + Number Bar
- Alt + Tab
- Lets you change apps fast, they’ll be showed on screen and you can just release it when you are on the one you want, it always puts them in last use order, so if you do alt tab twice you’ll go back to the first one, useful when you have a lot of apps open but mainly use two and one is just for music for example.
- Win + Tab
- Opens the Virtual Desktop tab on Windows, less useful, but having multiple desktops can be good in some cases, one can have the music and the first one your working apps, that way they’re still in the background but don’t annoy you when switching apps with alt tab
- Win + Ctrl + D
- Creates a new virtual desktop
- Win + Ctrl + Arrow keys (Left / Right)
- Goes to the respective virtual desktop (respectively the previous and next one in the list, useful for switching fast between them
Note: Virtual Desktops are kinda obscure, I don’t even use them most of the time, then again, getting used to them can be really useful, you can also have games on the second virtual desktop and work on the first and easily switch between games and work without anyone noticing with the Win +Ctrl +Arrow keys 😂
- Win + D
- Shows the desktop, pressing once will minimize the apps and pressing a second time will maximize them back, doesn’t really have much use cases.
- Win + V
- Shows the last stuff you had in your clipboard, the first time you use it it asks you to enable it, if you do, you have an history of the last stuff you copied which is useful if you want to temporarily save stuff in it, mostly useful for devs, but also a neat tricks for anyone else often using docs and having to copy paste stuff around all the time, gets deleted when you restart computer unless you activate account sync, but for your own sake, don’t enable sync. 😂
Make a search word or sentence mandatory in the results by putting them between Quotation Marks "
Example: Searching cute doggo will find anything matching only cute and anything matching only doggo, one can be missing, while searching "cute doggo" will find anything matching cute doggo, in that case with both words following each others, if you want a list of words but not necessarily in order, just puts them all individually between quotation marks, meaning searching "cute" "doggo" will find anything having both words but they can be anywhere on the website.
You can remove a word from the results by adding a Minus / Hyphen - in front of it.
Example: You search cute doggo but find a lot of articles matching cute catto as well and you prefer doggos because you’re a sane person, so you don’t want cattos in the results, searching cute doggo -catto will remove any results having catto anywhere in the article.
Adding site:domain can let you search on specific domains
Example: dog site:wikipedia.org will find the result page for dogs on Wikipedia, and dog site:.org will find all articles on websites with the ending .org, useful if you want to search something more professional, there’s a lot of these, and you can use them all, most useful are said to be .org, .com, .edu, .gov (or your country’s government domain ending), .int (for international stuff), and of course all the country specific stuff, .ch, .fr, .de, .us for usa (though I don’t think there’s a lot of useful .us websites)
You can make mixes with advanced searches !!! And this is where it gets useful
Adding the hypen before any of the other ones will do the same as not having it, except instead of finding especially that, it will remove it from the searches
Example: dog -site:wikipedia.org will find every articles about dogs that aren’t on Wikipedia, "cute" "doggo" -"cute catto" -site:whitehouse.gov will find any articles containing cute and doggo, not containing cute catto that AREN’T on whitehouse.gov, which of course is a useless addition since there’s already none, but it works.
If you want to use one of these but aren’t sure how, you can always click on the “Settings” tab in Google Search and then on Advanced Search, that way you can see how to use them all.
You can also change the search language to have better results in specific languages, for example if you’re searching about a very popular Spanish movie in English, you might not find it, searching it while searching in Spanish will find it without issues. That can be done by again going on the Settings tab in Google search and clicking Language this time.
That goes for all possible search languages, even though English has by default the best results for really popular stuff.
Doing ctrl + / will show you all the useful keyboard combos, as well as let you play music.