tchaulk | 
03 10th, 2009| 
You’ve seen it, down in the lower left corner of the keyboard, between the Ctrl and Alt keys. A key with the windows logo on it. It either looks like the picture in this post or, with an older keyboard, may have an older Windows logo on it.
Maybe you’ve even used it to show or hide your start menu, or maybe you don’t know that it can do that. It can. But in combination with other keys, it can also do a number of other things to make life easier. Here’s just a few you might find helpful.
- Windows logo+D One of the One of the keyboard shortcuts I use the most is the Windows logo+D. That combo will show you the desktop right away. When you have a number of windows open, this simple shortcut can be a huge time saver.
- Windows Logo+F1 Need help with Windows? This combo will display Windows Help.
- Windows Logo+R This keyboard shortcut displays the Run command.
- Windows Logo+E This one opens My Computer. Why, the E, you say? For Windows Explorer.
- Windows Logo+M Now this one, as with the Windows logo+D, is useful when the boss comes by and you’re checking in on facebook instead of doing that monthly report. Windows Logo+M minimizes all open windows.
- Windows Logo+Shift+M Yup, you guessed it, once the boss is out of the way, it restores all minimized windows.
- Windows Logo+F This combination will bring up the Find or Search area so you can search for files or folders.
There are more shortcuts that use the Windows logo but I think these are the ones the tech-reluctant might want to use the most.
