Windows Logo – Top 5 Shortcuts

These shortcuts will speed up your day by a few milliseconds, but hey, every second counts in this “time is money” world. Using the key known as the Windows Logo Button or Windows Key, it’s the key on your keyboard with a little picture on it (the Windows Logo as shown on the left), generally next to the [ALT] key.

So, here are the top 5 shortcuts that use the Windows Logo Key. Any key being pressed will be in the square brackets [], for example, [E] means press the “e” on your keyboard.

1 – [WINDOWS LOGO] – [L]

If you use a computer at work or in a public place, this is a shortcut that you HAVE to learn. It locks your computer without you having to click on the “START” button and saying lock. It’s easy enough to do, so you have NO excuse for leaving your computer unlocked when you go and get your coffee.

2 – [WINDOWS LOGO] – [D]

This shortcut is the same as clicking the icon on your task bar to show the desktop (which will minimise all your windows/programs so you can see your desktop). This is useful if you have a lot of shortcuts on your Desktop.

3 – [WINDOWS LOGO] – [E]

This shortcut will open up Windows Explorer. Windows Explorer is obviously that program that allows you to browse around your computer. I’m sure you use it quite often for searching for your files on your computer…

4 – [WINDOWS LOGO] – [R]

This shows the “Run” dialog box. Useful if you use this as a way of running certain programs. An example is typing “cmd” (without the quotes) into the Run Dialog box to open up a command window…

5 – [WINDOWS LOGO]

Strange? Yes and no. Pressing this key by itself pops up the “Windows Start Menu“, which opens up a world of possibility on your computer

But, more importantly, it allows you to assign even more shortcuts to the Windows Start Menu, which I will show you in the next post.