Windows 7 may just be the most keyboard-friendly operating system yet. Without ever laying a finger on your mouse, you can dock windows, quick-launch your favorite apps, enable external displays, and ...

Now that you’ve had a chance to install the Windows 7 Release Candidate and spend a few weeks exploring the OS, it’s time to get serious and learn some keyboard shortcuts. Windows 7 adds some new ones ...

Windows hotkeys—when you press two or more keys at once to tell your computer to do something specific—are your, well, key to saving time when you’re at your computer. Once you have them memorized, ...

I've been trying to be more intentional about how I work on my PC, and a big part of that has been moving toward a keyboard-first workflow. Not because the mouse is bad, but because I kept noticing ...

A shortcut is a link to an item (such as a file, folder, or app) on your PC. You can create and assign a keyboard shortcut to open your favorite Website, to open a shortcut on your desktop, taskbar, ...

Windows only: Tiny utility ActivateByNum mimics the Windows 7 shortcut key combination for quickly switching between open windows—you can simply use Win+n to choose open windows based on their ...

Q I prefer to use keyboard shortcuts rather than break my workflow and lift my fingers from the keyboard to maneuver the mouse. Now that I’ve switched to Windows 7, what are some of the keyboard ...