50+ Shortcuts for a Mouse-Free Life

Let's reach 3000 likes 💜 Most of us are only used to mouse controls. In this video, I'm gonna perform a few tasks, all while using keyboard only.

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[YouVideo]

A cool keyboard+mouse shortcut I know is that holding down the Alt key and double-clicking on an item in Explorer opens up it’s properties. You can also hold down Control+Alt or Shift+Alt keys to open up properties for multiple items.

[karl]

Knew 51 out of 56. Definitely will be using the shortcut keybind feature. The rest of the ones I didn't know are rather useless for me (word wrap, send to desktop stuff...).
Also some of the ones I use a lot too:
Ctrl + L - focuses the address bar (windows explorer and browsers)
(Ctrl +) Home and End - moves the cursor the the beginning or end of the line/file
Shift + arrow keys (in windows explorer) - selecting a range of files
Ctrl + arrow keys and space (in windows explorer) - cherry-picking specific files to select (holding control when using cursors to not break the selection and pressing space to add items)
Typing characters in windows explorer selects the first file that matches what you typed. By not typing for a bit it resets what you were writing.

Besides the standard shortcuts I use a ton of other shortcuts that I added via various third-party software (sharex, powertoys...).

[pawer_organos]

Also a fun fact: That Alt+F4 while on explorer.exe (desktop) is actually a remnant of the *old* shutdown screen, used in Windows 9X

[DavidWonn]

Back in the days of administering Windows NT servers, there were times when the mouse would become unresponsive, yet you didn't want to reboot an important server during business hours. Accessibility options in the control panel were a very handy temporary workaround, where the numeric keypad acts as the mouse (in addition to obviously memorizing a lot of keyboard shortcuts.)

[mini_bomba]

I did not realise windows actually had a native way to set a custom shortcuts easily.
It's kinda hidden and kind of dumb that you have to keep the shortcut icon on your dekstop for it to work, I very much prefer the way most linux desktops do it - just have a shortcuts section in the settings app.

[yeshi]

if you spam win-e too fast, explorer will start having some really weird behavior. icons wont render, your taskbar elementa will randomly be misplaced, and more. maybe enough weirdness for a video?

[sipasa]

Did somebody with a laptop run away when seeing a menu button in some shortcuts? Don't worry! The menu button (and pretty much any right click menu when selecting something in any program after spamming tab) is just shift+f10, hope it also helps the 110%/100% keyboard layout guys out there :)

[codrutx]

I knew all of them, so... I win I guess!

[Terms-on-Dragon]

Thank you for these shortcuts! now I know how to navigate in fast speeds!

If you wanna watch youtube mouse-free, here is some shortcuts which are: "J" "L" (Moves the video 10 seconds ahead or back) "K" (Pauses/Resumes the video) ", " "." (Moves the video a frame forward or back) "1 - 9" (Jumps the video in measurements, "0" brings you back to the start)

Hope this is helpful!

Edit: I forgot about "F" (which enters/exits fullscreen)

[MartinDerTolle]

You can just type recycle bin into explorer (the filepath bar) to open it. No need to do press Win + R and to type "shell:RecycleBinFolder"

[gabrielandy]

lets not forget that if the person don't have a mouse, and the software don't have proper keyboard support, or some specific function don't work the user can enable "Keyboard controlable mouse"
by pressing alt+shift+numlock, then the mouse will be conrolled by the keyboards arrows/numbers. >8 mouse goes up >2 goes down, >4 left >6 right, >5 its clicking a mouse button, number 0 its the second button, theres also a option to use the scroll wheel click but i don't know on what keyboard button these goes.
the inverse can also be done without a keyboard, if u have just a mouse u can enable a virtual keyboard on the screen its life saver sometimes.

if the person don't have a mouse and a keyboard, its possible to control the pc by voice but it must be configured before with a keyboard and mouse and its much limited on what it can do at this point its better to have a touch screen support instead since windows support touch commands.

[Detective_Lynne]

5:04 Fly: **use Win+Space instead Shift+Alt**

Majority of Windows users: *TRIGERRED*

[bharatmadho]

6:27 you can also kill a process with alt+e(end task)

[NCG]

The underlined letters actually meaning something just changed my whole worldview

[teggolT]

Tip: use kde connect to use your phone as a trackpad

[seifenspender]

I knew every single one except for:

- Alt+Up to move a folder up. I usually go back using my mouse wheel dragged to the left. Good to know though.
- Alt+Enter for properties. That is pretty cool!

There should really be an easier way to open Recycle Bin using one shortcut.
Btw, you forgot to mention Win+(Left, Right, Up, Down) which is like one of the most useful shortcuts for organizing windows.

[smart_bar]

Didn't know about Ctrl+Alt++/- in explorer window before, thank you for that. And about Win+N, but it doesn't work in Windows 10, okay. Now a few shortcuts that _you_ forgot!

Win+T sets the focus on the Taskbar, and Win+B sets focus on system tray. This is useful for me on laptop!
Ctrl+Shift+Esc open Task Manager, but you forgot about Shift+Esc that minimize its window and Esc that just close it.
You have shown Win+Tab, which open array of desktops, but have not shown Ctrl+Win+left/right which allow you to switch desktops directly.
There is also Win+A which open notification center on Windows 10.
And last and my favorite) Press Win++ to enable screen magnifier and zoom in entire screen! Press Win+- to zoon out and press Win+Esc to close it. Amazing!

[projectember]

This is how a computer from the 80s would be like if it was on windows 11
I’m impressed by your computer skills
You’re a great source of computer related videos:)
Keep it up

[lmnk]

Good video! The only one I didn't knew (I don't count the recycle bin one because it's not actually a shortcut) was Win+, (very useful one actually).

Out of more interesting ones I know:
Win+Ctrl+Shift+B -- restart DWM driver
Ctrl+Esc -- does the same as pressing Win

Win+Ctrl+<digit> -- the same as Win+Ctrl, but if you have multiple windows open, it will just open the first instead of opening a selection box
Win+Shift+<digit> -- open a new copy of a pinned program, no matter if it's already opened or not
Win+Alt+<digit> -- opens context menu of a pinned program

There are also a few Office-related shortcuts (called "OfficeKeys" by MS), I think they were added in Win10 or so): Win+Alt+Ctrl+<first letter of some MS product, e.g. W for Word or O for OneDrive>, but they will only work if you have this -bloat- software installed.

[mstech-gamingandmore]

You can also type in the file view of explorer to search for files.

E.g. typing "impor" will bring you to the first file beginning with "impor" e.g. "important document.docx"