General keyboard-only commands

• F1: Starts Windows Help
• F10: Activates menu bar options
• SHIFT+F10 Opens a shortcut menu for the selected item (this is the same as right-clicking an object
• CTRL+ESC: Opens the Start menu (use the ARROW keys to select an item)
• CTRL+ESC or ESC: Selects the Start button (press TAB to select the taskbar, or press SHIFT+F10 for a context menu)
• ALT+DOWN ARROW: Opens a drop-down list box
• ALT+TAB: Switch to another running program (hold down the ALT key and then press the TAB key to view the task-switching window)
• SHIFT: Press and hold down the SHIFT key while you insert a CD-ROM to bypass the automatic-run feature
• ALT+SPACE: Displays the main window's System menu (from the System menu, you can restore, move, resize, minimize, maximize, or close the window)
• ALT+- (ALT+hyphen): Displays the Multiple Document Interface (MDI) child window's System menu (from the MDI child window's System menu, you can restore, move, resize, minimize, maximize, or close the child window)
• CTRL+TAB: Switch to the next child window of a Multiple Document Interface (MDI) program
• ALT+underlined letter in menu: Opens the menu
• ALT+F4: Closes the current window
• CTRL+F4: Closes the current Multiple Document Interface (MDI) window
• ALT+F6: Switch between multiple windows in the same program (for example, when the Notepad Find dialog box is displayed, ALT+F6 switches between the Find dialog box and the main Notepad window)
• Windows system key combinations
  F1: Help
  CTRL+ESC: Open Start menu
  ALT+TAB: Switch between open programs
  ALT+F4: Quit program
  SHIFT+DELETE: Delete item permanently
• Windows program key combinations
  CTRL+C: Copy
  CTRL+X: Cut
  CTRL+V: Paste
  CTRL+Z: Undo
  CTRL+B: Bold
• General folder/shortcut control
  F4: Selects the Go To A Different Folder box and moves down the entries in the box (if the toolbar is active in Windows Explorer)
  F5: Refreshes the current window.
  F6: Moves among panes in Windows Explorer
  CTRL+G: Opens the Go To Folder tool (in Windows 95 Windows Explorer only)
  CTRL+Z: Undo the last command
  CTRL+A: Select all the items in the current window
  BACKSPACE: Switch to the parent folder
  SHIFT+click+Close button: For folders, close the current folder plus all parent folders
  CTRL+U: Underline
  CTRL+I: Italic