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12 simple, secret Windows shortcuts you probably don’t know

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

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

The original tip 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 an entire list of such tricks () pinned to the

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