Windows Explorer Shortcut Keys

- ALT+D - Select the Address Bar

- ALT+F4 - Close Active window

- ALT+ENTER - Open the website address that is typed in the Address Bar in new tab

- ALT + Tab - to shift focus to the next active program

- Windows Key+ E - Open Explorer Windows

- Windows Key+ R - Open Run Windows

- Windows Key + M - Minimize All Windows

- Windows Key + Shift + M - Undo Minimize All Windows

- Windows Key + D - Show the Desktop

- CTRL+ENTER - Add "http://www." to the beginning and ".com" to the end of text in Address Bar

- CTRL+SHIFT+ENTER - Add "http://www." to the beginning and the website address suffix you have specified to the end of text in the Address Bar*

- F4 - View list of previously typed addresses

- F5 – Refresh Active window

- F6 - Moves among panes in Windows Explorer

- F11 - to put the current program into Full Screen Mode

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What does Alt+F4 do?

This is one of those jokes people play on each other -- it's in the same category with squirting flowers and exploding cigars. This joke works on machines running the Windows operating system because Windows happens to define certain keystrokes that work the same way in all applications. Just about everyone knows that Alt+Ctrl+Del interrupts the operating system, but most people don't know that Alt+F4 closes the current window. So if you had pressed Alt+F4 while playing a game, the game window would have closed.

It turns out there are several other handy keystrokes like that built into Windows. For example, Ctrl+Esc will pop up the Start menu, Alt+Esc will bring the next window to the foreground, and Alt+Tab or Alt+Shift+Tab will let you cycle through all available windows and jump to the one you select.

On keyboards that have the little "Windows" key (let's call it WK here) down near the space bar, you probably know that you can press that key to open the Start menu.

You can also use that key with other keys like you use the shift key. For example:

WK+e - starts the Windows Explorer
WK+f - starts the Find in Files dialog
WK+Ctrl+f - starts the Find a Computer on the Network dialog
WK+M - minimizes all the windows to clear the desktop
WK+Shift+M - restores all the minimized windows
WK+r - starts the Run dialog
WK+F1 - starts Windows Help
WK+Pause - starts System Properties