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12 secret Windows shortcuts you probably don’t know

You can be a seasoned Windows user, but you may still not know every shortcut that’s available. For example, earlier this month I learned a new keyboard shortcut I hadn’t known before. It was so simple and obvious, yet it felt like a complete secret until that very moment.

I also discovered that there are a whole lot more I’ve been sleeping on.

The  came via Twitter (now known as X) courtesy of Jen Gentleman, a Windows engineering team member at Microsoft. But the help doesn’t stop there. She very generously has shared an , pinned to the top of her feed. I eagerly jumped down that rabbit hole and came away with a solid list of new shortcuts to incorporate into daily

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