Speed up your experience with shortcut keys!

Amongst all the other great things about vista, shortcut keys are possibly the most useful feature you can find on a pc - they speed up your transition from place to place and give you a sense of contol over your pc. Microsoft appear to have really thought vista through; every aspect of your computing experience has been improved, so it's no surprise that they added a few more useful shortcuts, especially the use of the win key. Below are a list of shortcuts that are always useful, you probably know most of them but it's nice to remind yourself of them. * Win-Space - this shows the sidebar * Win-D - to show the desktop * Ctrl Win-Tab: Flip 3D but one that stays on the desktop, you can then scroll with up, down, left and right keys * Win-E - to open an explorer window * Win-R - to open the run dialogue box * Win-T - this tabs between running applications onto the taskbar * Win-Q - this appears to launch Office communicator * Win-G - pushes focus to the the sidebar the focus and when you press this key combination again it tabs between the gadgets on the sidebar * Win-M - Minimizes all windows and just shows the desktop * Shift Win-M - Undoes minimize windows * Win-Number: Press the Win key and then choose a number of the applications that are in the quick launch task bar. An example the third icon on the taskbar (starting from left) is IE so to run IE press Win-3 and it will launch IE.