Windows 8: THE power user’s hotkey
In Windows 8 there are a lot of new keyboard hotkeys to help navigate. In my opinion the one that is going to be THE poweruser hotkey is…
WIN+X
This brings up the following menu:
The underlined letter of each entry allows you to follow WIN+X with
- f – for programs and features (a.k.a. Add/Remove programs)
- o – for Power Options
- v – for Event Viewer
- y – for System Properties (I still use WIN+BREAK)
- m – for Device Manager
- k – for Disk Management
- g – for Computer Management
- c – for the Command Prompt
- a – for a Command Prompt running with Admin rights
- t – for Task Manger
- p – for Control Panel
- e – for File Explorer
- s – Search (this drops you into the Start screen’s all “Apps” view ready to search for pick an app from the list
- r – Run (Still prefer WIN+R)
- d – for Desktop (Still prefer WIN+D)
I feel this one hotkey will help to mitigate complaints on how quickly (or not quickly) the new Start screen allows you to get these important system locations.