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Windows 95 required the key to be on a keyboard to get the "Designed for Windows" logo, and used it to bring up the Start Menu. It was quickly added by virtually all desktop keyboard manufacturers. The first laptop to bear Windows keys on its keyboard was the Gateway Solo. [4]
Show all open windows ⊞ Win+Tab ↹: F3 or F9 or Fn+F9 or Move mouse pointer to configured hot corner or active screen corner [25] [26] ⊞ Win works per desktop on Gnome 3+ Ctrl+x, then Ctrl+b: Show Windows: Show all windows of current application ⊞ Win+Tab ↹ Ctrl+F3 or F10 or Move mouse pointer to configured hot corner or active screen ...
Here are some Windows key commands and what they do: Windows key (Win): opens the Start menu on your computer. Windows button + Tab: switch your view from one open window to the next.
Since the Windows 95 Desktop Update, the Quick Launch bar featured Show desktop as one of its default shortcuts which automatically minimizes all opened applications, redundant with the Winkey-D key combination. On Windows 7, a dedicated Show desktop button was placed to the right of the notification area and could not be removed.
Allows one to add, display, troubleshoot, and use advanced settings on joysticks and game controllers and connect to other type of game controllers. Moved to the Settings app on Windows 10 Anniversary Update. Keyboard (control keyboard) (main.cpl) Lets the user change and test keyboard settings, including cursor blink rate and key repeat rate.
With the Desktop Themes utility in 2000 becoming the Themes tab in Display Properties in XP, the Rotate theme monthly option in Desktop Themes, which was introduced in Microsoft Plus! 98 and later included in Windows 2000 and Me, and both the options to select what parts of a theme to apply and the previews for parts of a theme were removed.
On Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows Vista, and Windows 7, the utility is in All Programs → Accessories → System Tools → Character Map in the Start Menu. On Windows 10 and Windows 11, the utility is in the Windows Accessories/Windows tools folders in the Start Menu, respectively. Beginning with Windows Vista, the user can also type the ...
Alt+Tab ↹ is the common name for a keyboard shortcut that has been in Microsoft Windows since Windows 1.0 (1985). This shortcut switches between application-level windows without using the mouse; hence it was named Task Switcher (Flip in Windows Vista).