20 Keyboard Shortcuts You’re A Moron for Not Using 

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Video: *is about windows* Thumbnail: mac keyboard

For us “old timers” ctrl-s was something you pressed every couple of minutes out of habit, cause Windows tended to just randomly crap out once in a while. This usually invoked ctrl-alt-delete.

Maybe worth mentioning, for Win+D to hide/show all your desktop windows, if you don't want to use the shortcut there's also the method of clicking the bottom-right of your screen (in the tiny vertical bar at the edge of your taskbar), which does the same thing without having to minimize each window on its own.

Wow, thank you! I'm a newer Windows user, and so I hadn't heard of most of these. They save so much time! 🙂

I remember doing CTRL+Alt+Arrow whilst playing a game, I didn’t know how to fix it so I did the next best thing: Turn the monitor around

"The title is just a joke. I don't think you're actually stupid." Jokes on you, pal. I *am* stupid.

The title of this video is the reason I watched it. I'm glad I did. Thank you for all of the great information! 👏👏

There's also, while editing text, the Ctrl + Left/Right which goes to the next word instead of the next character, It can also be combined with Shift + Arrow like Shift + Ctrl + Arrow to select word by word instead of 1 char each time. Also there's F6 (For browser) which lets you go directly to the address bar, instead of moving the mouse and clicking in it

Not so common and rarely needed, but still helpful: WIndows+Ctrl+Shift+B will force restart your graphics driver, this way you can solve some display issues.

I'm an elite viewer who watched till the end and forgotten every shortcut I learned today Edit - Mom, I'm famous..

Awesome Video man. Most of these key binds I've already knew, but in the end of the video, there was few ones that I've learnt.

I'm an elite viewer who watched till the end 😀👍 Thanks a lot, ThioJoe for all you share! Blessings!

Another great shortcut for typing is CTRL+Backspace. This will delete an entire word at a time! 😉

I'm an elite computer user (started in 1969 - over 50 years ago) and I absolutely LOVED your presentation. While I already knew a lot of the shortcuts there were others that I learnt that I will find indespensible. Thanks Joe. 😜

The "emoji" menu shortcut is win+. (win + dot) for me. If in Office, pressing ctrl+F makes the text bold, because of language settings, so if you're using a non-English version of Windows/Office and wonder why some of the shortcuts don't work, it could be because some of them are different depending on language and keyboard layout/settings. :)

Here are more that i know of: - In MS-Word: F12 to Save As - In browsers: Win+W closes the current tab - In most text editing softwares: Ctrl+N to open a new document - Hold shift when deleting to delete the file permanently (doesn't do to bin)

You miss the one variant with "SHIFT + Arrow" to select text. You can also do "CTRL + SHIFT + Arrow" to select word by word in lieu of character at the time. 🤔😎

ctrl + shift + arrow key, to extend your text selection by whole words instead of just single letters. Use that one more frequently than shift+arrow key

I'm an elite viewer who watched till the end, and a number one fan of yours man! I've leaned a lot from you in the past few weeks. Props on your great work!

Thanks, this really helped.😁 I didn't know any keyboard commands until this video.⌨💻

"So if you're still one of those noobs using the print screen key and then cropping in paint..." I feel personally attacked

Thanks, man! didn't know many of those shortcuts. watched till the end✔

Hey,, what a great video...I love the one for screenshots (win + shift + s)...Oh and I definitely watched till the end 😂😂

What I can't understand people living without is: "middle mouse button" + link Ctrl + link Opens link in new tab.

Let me know what you think of the thumbnail I put a lot of extra time into this one

Love it, thank you. I need a refresher course on this.

Only found two of them useful, but those were real eye-openers. Thanks you

About the tip at 6:07 , alternatively you can do "Shift+ctrl + →" to select entire words directly instead of selecting letter per letter, it probably saved me time more than I can remember. Or just using "ctrl + →" to navigate between the words. Late to the video but posting this in case it helps out lol.

Pro tip: Buy a mouse with lots of buttons and/or a keyboard with "macro" keys and map some of these shortcuts to those. It's amazing.

Thank You, great overview - I was hoping to know about a shortcut keys to Move an open app window (it use to be on the right-click menu, but no more) - also Emoji can be accessed with ( Win + . ).

I like a lot the content u prepare and algo u make me feel smart! Your pronunciation is so clear that I understand each word! Greetings from Buenos Aires!. By the way, the emoji panel is fantastic!

CTRL + W: Closes a document, program, or your current browser tab

gotta admit, the emoji shortcut had me impressed. not that i use them that often, but it's good to know about at least

Great Video, I just learned a lot of new shortcuts just by watching this, very very helpful. Thanks!!

A couple more: Ctrl+L brings your cursor to the web browser address bar. Good for quickly inputting a google search. Also works in file explorer and probably most programs that have similar thing. It even worked in LoL to search the shop (at least at the time when I used to play it) Alt+Left/Right moves to previous/next page you've been on. Alt+Up in files explorer brings you a level up Alt+F4 on desktop brings up a shutdown menu on windows. I don't remember when was the last time I've turned off my PC the regular way.

Hmm... Missed Ctrl-X for "cut" operations

Also, middle-clicking(clicking the mouse-wheel itself on a lot of cheap mice) on a taskbar icon will open up another instance of that app even if it is already running. Which can be a hassle to do otherwise.

A few years ago, whilst in MSWord, I stumbled across a few shortcuts... Cursor in a block of text >> [Alt-Shift-Left/Right Arrow] changes the font according to the styles one has preset or are the default. Anywhere in MSWord, [Alt-Shift-Arrow (any)] flips the whole screen either horizontally or vertically (might be useful for a monitor screen in portrait orientation).

A-1 presentation !! A lot of good tips- well done , thanks THIO !!

Here's one for those using a mouse: middle click. Middle click has 3 efficient functions on browsers - you can middle click a tab to close it, middle click a link to open it in a new tab, and middle click on a scrollable page to scroll faster.

I knew a lot of these and still learned a few more. Thanks man 😎

Thanks because this is the best video for me so far. I have questions. How to use keyboard to perform right click and double click?

Oh nice nice nice. I was using win+m to hide windows but that minimize them. So i`ll add win+d and win+numbers to open programs. I only add 2 or 3 each time to make sure i use them and not pretend i will remember every shorcut in the video. Thanks for your videos!

Great shortcuts! I think I learnt at least two new ones! Mainly win+V and the shift+win+s, they'll come in handy! Even after all this time using computers and such, there is always more to learn. One of the ones I've been using a lot recently (and is only really useful if you have a second monitor) is Windows key + Shift + Left arrow or Right arrow: Move selected window to the left or right monitor. This is so helpful because I have a graphics tablet with a display on it, and I have it plugged in but not always on, and some times the window will get opened up on that display, so instead of having to pull out the tablet turn it on and drag it across, that one shortcut saves lots of time!

Favourite thing learned recently: Pressing tab while renaming a file, will save changes, then rename the next file. Saves going Enter -> Down -> F2 for every file.

For anyone using multiple screens, but not always having all turned on Win + Shift + Arrows will move the active window to the adjacent screen in that direction. So this is an easy way to get a window back if you moved it off screen, or if its last position was on a screen you have turned off at the moment.

In MSWord, placing the cursor in any text and using [Alt-Shift-Up or Dn Arrow] will move the paragraph of text up or down the page allowing one to relocate text before or after other paragraphs. This also works within tables where one wishes to re-order one or more rows (selecting multiple rows is easy with the mouse), but beware, moving a block(s) of text into a table causes unusual behaviour as does moving a row(s) within a table to a location outside the table boundary.

Ctr+W - definatly most frequently shortcut used by me.

I'm nearly 70, have been playing with computers since the C64. I knew a lot of these, but the ones I didn't look super useful as I am still driving a desktop at work. e.g I've been pasting HTML and other shit to Notepad to strip formatting, so that one alone is great. ( I hate people who paste Pictures of text you cant copy from.) I will replay this vid and document these tips later. (I wish my memory was as good as when I was young!)

Brilliant video. Great help. Extremely useful. Thank you.

For the snip and sketch thing, you can actually just make the printscreen button open snip and sketch, in the windows settings, just like shift+win+s does and just press printscreen to be able to select an area to screenshot.

me : sees title also me who only knows alt f4 : im in danger

6:20 Alternatively you can use Shift+Ctrl+ArrowKey to select word by word instead of letter by letter. This also works while deleting.

Thank you for sharing. It's easy to understand for me 👍🌹

Love this, thanks ThioJeo. I now have to find a way to speed up my HP laptop.

Ctrl + Shift + V the shortcut I spent my whole life looking for

He forgot the most juicy one: Ctrl + Shift + arrow left/right: Selects all characters up to the next white-space character (aka a word).

i have watched it today and learned a lot,am wondering where i have been since you posted this.

I am an elite viewer who watched till the end, and I must say the last shortcut is the most useful (that I didn't know before), great job 😊👍👏

I have a few more: - Pressing Alt + Space opens up a window's context menu. - You can use Control + Insert as an alternative for Copy and Shift + Insert for Paste. - Not many people know this one but you can move your windows with the arrow keys after holding the title bar for a second or so. This moves them in steps of 10 pixels, or if you want to have them perfectly aligned, use Control + Arrow keys for steps of 1 pixel. Also works when resizing windows, even if invoked from the title bar's context menu. Also yes, I watched until the end but for some reason my emoji panel is broken :v

9:40 Storage volume B: *wait that's illegal*

wow! thank you for sharing, That windows screenshot shortcut really helpful

Amazing job, mate!! Thanks a lot.

Shift + Windows + S Thank you so much for this! No more Ms paint editing! 😂

You hurt my feelings by saying " are you still one of those noobs who still use print screen". I was like :(

I'm proud to say I knew almost all of these, being the elite computer expert that I am 😏 The Clipboard shortcut and F2 rename are the only ones I wasn't intimately familiar with. I knew about the Snipping tool too but I can never remember the combo. Maybe I missed it in the video, but I think the Ctrl+W command was missed, which closes your active browser tab or Explorer window. A shortcut relevant exclusively to Windows 11: Windows+[comma]. This is the function that replaced Aero Peek (which I'm still salty about). As long as your have the Windows key held, it will show your desktop, which is nice if you have a cool wallpaper that makes you happy or motivates you, or a slideshow wallpaper and you want to see the current photo without having to minimize and re-maximize all your windows again. Edit: another one that was vaguely touched on is Print Screen (PrtSc). Just pressing PrtSc will copy a screenshot of your entire screen to the clipboard. From here you can paste it into an image editor to edit or save, or paste it directly into a text field or instant messenger that supports it, like an email draft window or Discord conversation. _However,_ if you hold the Windows key and _then_ press PrtSc, it will immediately save a screenshot to your Pictures\Screenshots folder, no further input required. Nice for when you don't want to crop a certain portion of your screen.

Very informative and a gamechanger for myself. Thank you and subbed

Alt+F4 gives you diamonds and optimises Minecraft! Like, who doesn't know this?!

Me: Doesn't know all the basic shortcuts Also me: Knows all the advanced shortcuts

I'm an elite viewer who watched until the end, too. 👍I have another example if you cut and paste into a document, use Control +X for cut and Control +V to paste, which I think the viewers knew about past commands. Windows Key+K is to cast.

@6:13… you can also use [Shift] + [Ctrl] + [←] / [→] to choose whole words (not just every letter at time) and [Ctrl] + [←] / [→] , to move between every word… it is much faster (& your finger is a "lesser woodpecker")

This guy literally making our life more easy and faster! Huge respect to u my friend! ❤️

"a lot of keyboard shortcuts on windows you dont know" *shows a macbook*

Many not know about the virtual desktops as well. You can create one by using Win+ctrl+D. You can close current virtual desktop by Ctrl+win+F4. You can switch through various virtual desktops by using Win+alt+left or right arrow keys and can rename them by pressing Win+Tab and renaming them manually.

Great stuff! Thank you! 🤩 I watched to the end.

Outstanding Thio! Yes I watched this video to the very end and I will be pondering the new shortcuts I was unaware of 🤔

I am really amazed by the last shortcut. I never thought I could use emoji's just like that. Thanks man. Keep up the good work 😘

Hi Thio, excellent presentation on short cuts! Loved the last one, never knew about it! Saves me time looking for the ascii numbers for it. What is the short cut to show your mouse pointer? Like when you have 2 monitors?

Great are also some more advanced varaints of what you talked about - Shift + Alt + Tab - browsing tabs backwards, Ctrl + X - cut, Ctrl + arrows to select whole words About Ctrl + Alt + arrows I think they only work on Intel integrated graphics

Here are also some that i use nearly every day and did not notice in the video: Win + Pause/Break opens up the good old System menu Ctrl + Tab in browsers mostly switches between tabs forwards Ctrl + Shift + Tab in browsers mostly switches between tabs backwards Ctrl + Shift + R in browsers acts much like Ctrl + F5 (refresh ignoring the cache) Win + M for minimize Win + Space bar to toggles between different languages (If you hold it would display the languages) Ctrl + Home in text processors / browsers bring you back to top of the page Ctrl + End in text processors / browsers bring you back to bottom of the page Ctrl + Shift + Home/End does the same as above but also selecting everything between current and top/bottom Same combinations with page up/down would behave similarly Also when using windows menu-search if you press Ctrl + Enter on selected application it would start with administrative privileges (User Account Control Prompt if enabled)

I'm an elite viewer who watched to the end and has already forgotten the first half. 🤔

Watched till the end, 👍😉, sure, but learned a few new key-combinations here though. I'm new on Windows 10, coming form Win7, and some were non-existent yet in Win7, like Windows+V or Windows+Shift+S for ex. Also, a good alternative to Ctrl+x (cut) / Ctrl+v (paste) is Shift+Delete (cut) / Shift+Insert (paste), as you already have your finger on the Shift key to select your text (by Shift + arrows or Shift+Ctrl+arrows). Once selected, keep your finger on the Shift key and press Delete to cut, and Insert to paste. Super useful coz super fast. I use it all the time.

4:50 you can also do WinKey + CTRL + RightArrow or WinKey + CTRL + LeftArrow to move between virtual desktops, and also WinKey + CTRL + F4 to close out of the current virtual desktop.

This video was so helpful, there were a few here that I not only didn't know, but actually needed to learn how to do anyway! I'm going to start multi-streaming soon, and several of these shortcuts will come in really handy for that! 👍👍👍

The [tab] key is overlooked frequently. It is for selecting the next in the list or completing the entry. Example 1: when you have to rename several files in a sequence, [F2] to rename the first file, once you've edited the name, instead of hitting [Enter}, hit [tab] and it will finish the rename on the first file and open the second file name for renaming. Example 2: when typing and autofill suggests the completed word or phrase, hit [tab] to accept the autofill suggestion and continue typing. When using for Excel formulas, [tab] leaves you in the edit process whereas [Enter] ends the edit process and errors our because the autofill (and formula) aren't complete.

I miss more Text Caret Keyboard shortcuts, they have all been around for centureis (Yep I'm talking about late DOS days and not just M$ Word). Loads of people uses their mouse way too mutch, thus making them fidle around more than needed. Since you are showing both global and local keyboard shortcuts, you should explain the difference, since local shortcuts only exists if the programmer decides to activate them and/or make them (if they are not defined). Oh and the good old Shift+Del, Ctrl+Ins, Shift+Ins is actually the original Cut Copy and Paste commands, rather than Ctrl+X, Ctrl+C and Ctrl+V And not to mention that Shift+F10 brings up a local menu (making the local menu key completely useseless, some keyboard has replaced this with the FN key, similar to the FN key on laptops). Since you are mentioning Tab - Keyboard Shortcuts, [Ctrl+F4] closes tabs, [Ctrl+Tab]/[Shift+Ctrl+Tab F6]/[Shift+F6] switches between, I write this because, this is the original Keyboard Shortcuts, thus making some programs to onlys responce to thoose shortcuts ;) I know I'm an old timer, but I looooooooooooooove Keyboard Shortcuts :D Maybe a link to a site with categorized keyboard shortcut descriptions ;)

Windows key + arrow keys is probably one of my most used shortcuts. Particularly useful if you have multiple monitors and don't want to have to drag your window all the way across with the mouse.

Helpful video .. Other important and useful shortcut is win + shift + Left/Right Arrow keys for moving the application from one screen to another if we are using the extended displays. Helpful and orientation is done smoothly.

20 years in IT, and I actually learned something from this...funny. I accidentally discovered the emoji interface just last week...neat...but several of these will be darn handy.

This might be your only video where I knew almost all of the tips already

I'm an elite viewer who watched till the end of this video! Thank you so much I can now use my computer effortlessly ! 👍👍😁😁😁😁

In addition to Windows Key + Arrow, there is the Windows + Shift + Left or Right Arrow; to move apps between dual monitors.

Browsers: Ctrl + '+' : Zoom in Ctrl + '-' : Zoom out Ctrl + '0' : Restore default (100%) zoom level These should work in most web browsers.

Thank You for making the video it was so helpful

there's definitely some short cuts here that I should have known for longer than I had. Just cause I watched this video maybe one year ago but did watch it full; and here I am, learning about them just cause I finished it this time. Stuff like here in a simple youtube video, While, I had the luck of finding so, just cause I was lucky of finding them on my keyboard. while playing or on my day.

6:59 Good one! If you know what i mean....😅

@6:30 I would like to add another text selection shortcut which I use very frequently - CTRL+SHIFT+ to select texts word by word (instead of just letters by letters) Another shortcut for elite users - Windows+C - which brings up Cortana ✌

The only shortcut I didn't know was the very last one. I'm so happy I stuck around until the end 😎

I find using the mouse cumbersome in terms of locating the cursor in a word, so I use the shortcuts almost exclusively. Selecting more than one word of text is done using the [Ctrl-Shift-Arrow]; the Up/Down Arrow in this mode will move the cursor the start or end of a paragraph.