All Windows 7 hotkeys

Microsoft Windows 7 is a very feature rich operating system that can take years to explore. Some of these features are difficult or too long to find using the graphical interface. Therefore, you can use special combinations of buttons on the keyboard, which are called "hot keys". This article will tell you about what are the keyboard shortcuts in a Windows 7 computer.

Working with windows

The first group of functions for which special commands are assigned in the system is managing the appearance of windows. The full list of combinations is shown in the table below.

Main key	Additional key	Action description
Alt	F4	Closes the currently used application window
	Tab	Displays a small panel withwith which you can switch between running programs
	Escape (Esc)	Same, but switching is in opening order
	Underlined Russian or English letter in menu item name	alt=" Opens a menu or executes a command. When using this hot key, you need to press the buttons sequentially, and not simultaneously. Instead of the "Image" key, you can use F10.
	Space (space)	Invokes the active window properties menu
Ctrl	Alt + Tab + Left and Right Arrows	The combination of the first 3 keys opens a small panel in which you can use the arrows to select the desired open window
Ctrl	F4	Closes a tab in a browser or any other program that supports multiple instances. Microsoft Word e.g.
F6	-	Allows you to switch between groups of window or program elements
Win	M	Minimizes all windows
	Up and Down Arrows	Changes the window size from default to full screen. Replaces the middle control button in the upper right corner of the window
	Right and Left arrows	Reduces the window to a small size and pins it to the left or right edge of the screen
	Home	Hides all windows except the active one
	Shift + up and down arrows	Stretches the selected window to the top and bottom of the screen and returns to its original size.
	Shift + Left and Right Arrows	Moves the window to another connected display
Left and Right arrows	-	alt=" Help you navigate through the menu in the mode activated by the keys "Image" and F10

Help. Win is a button on the keyboard with a flag icon on it. Located between the left Ctrl and Alt, as well as the right "Image" and the context menu button.

Working with desktop elements

The table below summarizes the keyboard shortcuts in Windows 7 that allow you to interact with this interface element.

Main key	Additional key	Action description
Ctrl	Rotation of the mouse wheel	Scales desktop icons. In the "Explorer" window, changes the way files are displayed:table, list and so on
Win	D	Minimizes all open windows. Duplicates the capabilities of the button to the right of the clock

Working with the taskbar

The third interface element that can be used with hotkeys in Windows 7 is the taskbar. It is located at the bottom of the screen and contains the Start menu, notification bar (tray) and an area that displays a list of open programs. The list of keyboard shortcuts is shown in the table below.

Main key	Additional key	Action description
Ctrl + Win	Tab	Switching between the buttons of running programs. Only available in Windows 7
	Number 1–9	Opens the last used window of the application pinned to the quick launch bar
	B	Call the window of the program that displayed the message in the notification bar
Win	T	Search running programs on the taskbar without maximizing windows
	Number 1–9	Launch or call one of the windows of the program pinned to the taskbar under the specified number
	Shift + number 1–9	Opens the program whose icon is present on the quick launch bar
	Alt + number 1–9	Shows recent files opened with an application from the quick launcher

General system button combinations

This group of hotkeys in Windows 7 does not have any one specific application. They can be used in many system and third-party programs. The full list of combinations is shown in the table below.

Main key or combination	Auxiliary key	Action description
Left Alt	Shift	Combination for changing the default input language. This combination can be changed to another in the control panel, section "Language settings"
Ctrl	С	Copies the selected or marked piece of text or file to the clipboard. Alternative key - Insert
	D	Deletes a file in the "Trash". Alternative key - Delete
	X	Deletes text or file, but keeps a copy of it in RAM
	V	Allows you to insert buffered elements using the previous 2commands
	Escape	Opens the start menu. Alternative key - Win
	Y	Redos the undone action
	Z	Cancels any action with a file or text, except for using the Shift + Delete command. Also, the combination does not cancel changes to program settings
Shift	F10	Invokes the context menu of a file or selected text. Alternative - button to the left of the right Ctrl
F1	-	Calls up offline help in any program
Escape	-	Cancels the current operation and closes dialog boxes.

Working in "Windows Explorer"

This part of the operating system is perhaps the most important. Therefore, the hot keys in Windows 7 are the most for her. They are summarized in the table below.

Main key or combination	Auxiliary key	Action description
Alt	D	Selects all text in the address bar
	Enter	Call the properties dialog of any object
	Up arrow	Opens the directory above the current one in the hard disk folder tree
	Left and Right Arrows	Open the previous and next directories
Ctrl	A	Selects all items in the window
	E	Activate the search field in the upper right corner of the window. Alternative button - F3
	F
	N	Duplicates an open window
	W	Closes one window. Alternative hotkey - Alt+ F4
	Point	Rotate the open image 90° clockwise and back
	Comma	Rotate the open image 90° clockwise and back
	Space and arrows	Allows you to selectively select files. Space is used for marking and arrows for moving
Ctrl + Shift	E	Displays in the left pane of "Explorer" the entire path from the root of the drive to the open folder
Ctrl + Shift	N	Creates a new folder
Home	-	Select the first and last file in the folder respectively
End	-	Select the first and last file in the folder respectively
F2	-	Enables editing file or folder name
F4	-	Sets the cursor to the address bar and displays the path as in Windows XP
F5	-	Refreshes the Explorer window.
F11	-	Maximizes the window to full screen without displaying a line with the title and window control buttons
Shift	Delete	Deletes files bypassing the Recycle Bin
Shift	Arrows	Sequentially selects all files in a folder or characters in text

Calling system applications and options windows

Key combinations for launching system utilities and windows with system settings are shown in the table below.

Main key or combination	Auxiliary key	Action description
Ctrl + Shift	Escape	Launches the "Task Manager".
Win	X	Opens the Windows Mobility Center. Since it controls the position of the display, you can call this hot key in Windows 7 "Rotatescreen"
	Pause/Break	Opens computer properties
	E	Opens the "My Computer" window
	F	If there is a local network, it starts searching for PCs connected to it
	R	Starting the "Run" system utility. With this hotkey in Windows 7, the command line is invoked

Note to the Win + R command. This hotkey in Windows 7 really helps in calling the command line, but is only an intermediate link in the utility launch chain. To download the latter, you need to enter the cmd command in the line. After that, a small window will appear with a black background and the year the OS was released. This is the command line

Note to the Win + X command. You cannot directly rotate the screen in Windows 7 with a hotkey. For this purpose, the "Mobility Center" is used, which is a window with 7 blocks: display brightness, sound volume, charge level and indicators of the connected monitor and projector, screen rotation. With the latter and you can change the orientation of the displayed image.

Move and select text

There are shortcuts in every version of Windows for this purpose. But besides them, special buttons on the keyboard are also used. Their list and functions are summarized in the table below.

Main key orcombination	Auxiliary key	Action description
Home	-	Set the cursor to the beginning and end of the line, respectively
End	-
PageUp	-	Flip the document up or down one viewport height
PageDown	-	Flip the document up or down one viewport height
Ctrl	Arrows	Allows the cursor to "jump" over words and paragraphs
	Home	Sets the mouse pointer to the beginning or end of a text file
	End
Shift	Home	Selects all text from the cursor to the beginning of the line
Shift	End	The same, but to the end of the line
Ctrl + Shift	Arrows	Helps to highlight whole words and paragraphs
	Home	Selects text from the cursor to the beginning and end of the document respectively
	End

Working with dialog boxes

Working with the dialog boxes of various programs is much more convenient and faster with the mouse, but the creatorsMicrosoft Windows has added a set of hotkeys for this OS component as well. All available combinations are summarized in the table below.

Main key or combination	Auxiliary key	Action description
Backspace	-	Opens the directory in which the mapped folder is nested
Ctrl + Tab	-	Switch tabs forward and backward respectively
Ctrl + Tab	Shift	Switch tabs forward and backward respectively
F4	-	Expands dropdown list
Enter	-	Analogue of clicking the left mouse button
Space	-	Puts marks in checkboxes (ticks, circles, squares)
Arrows	-	Allows you to select the desired button if there are several of them

Summarizing, we can say that it does not really matter where you use hotkeys in Windows 7: on a laptop, desktop or tablet computer. The main thing is that the device must have 2 USB 2.0 ports for connecting a keyboard and mouse.