Weve previously discussed shortcut keys you can use in Windows 7, but didnt cover all of them.

Theres no way to do this, but we can certainly give you another large list of key combinations you can use to make your life much simpler.

As long as youre a keyboard person, and prefer not to use your mouse at any opportunity you have, this guide will teach you to surf around your operating system almost solely on your keyboard.

In exchange, using the Down arrow will first restore it, if it was maximized, and then minimize it once you press the Down arrow again.

You can do this easily by pressing Win and the Left arrow to move the window to the left half of the screen.

The Right arrow will do the same on the right side of the screen.

If you got something quick to search for, though, you can go ahead and use the top right corner of any Explorer window.

It will scan every volume you have installed on your computer.

The Mobility Center allows you to check your battery, change power settings, change brightness, adjust the volume, enable projector presentations, and sync with other devices all from one window.

Its a powerful feature for when youre running on a laptop or a tablet because every single drop of juice from your battery counts.

Youll have instant access to your hard drives and connected devices from this window.

Its useful for finding resources that are shared on computers in a very large network.

If you add Ctrl to that mix, you get to open a new instance of a window in administrator mode.

Take note that, while out of Explorer, youll just switch to the desktop and minimize all windows.

Pressing it again will reverse the process in case you accidentally activate minimization.

No way Windows comes with such a feature integrated already If you use this keyboard shortcut, youll have Copy as path listed in your context menu.

It comes useful for those of you who write tutorials that involve lots of path names.

It adds the ability to open the directory in the command prompt.

Its an easy way to get there when your mouse batteries are dead.

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Windows 7 Shortcut Keys List