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How to bring windows back up, after opening a new window on the desktop in Win10?

Question:: How to bring windows back up, after opening a new window on the desktop in Win10? Situation:: Lets say you have 3 windows of applications A, B, C currently opened on your screen, and welly ...
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Is there a shortcut to access the Windows Taskbar programs beyond the 10th one?

In Windows there is the hotkey Win + 1-0 to access the programs you have set in your taskbar, numbering from 1 up to the 10th one. Is there a shortcut to access the programs in your taskbar beyond the ...
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What is this Windows (10) screen snipping application and how do I disable it?

It gets activated with this hotkey: CTRL + Alt + A. I want to disable it (or at least change the hotkey) since I need that same hotkey for Winsplit.
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Is there a way to force video output through an external monitor with a hotkey?

I was wondering if there was a keyboard shortcut to force my laptop to display through the externally connected HDMI display. Reason: my Aorus X7 Pro v3 cf2 currently has no screen, however the ...
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Remap the F7 key to execute the Win + Shift + S shortcut

I recently reinstalled the Windows on my Xiaomi Mi Notebook Air 13, resulting in a loss of its F7 function - so basically now the F7 key does nothing! I have also found out that Windows currently has ...
Ivan Panchev's user avatar
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Find originator of a hotkey

How do I find the source of a Windows hotkey / shortcut? I know the keys that start it are Ctrl-Alt-M and I know the program it runs is Windows explorer pointed to the My Documents folder. But how do ...
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Windows hotkey to change keyboard layout

What is the hotkey to switch between keyboard layouts in windows, while in some application? I tried CTRL+shift and ALT+shift but it didn't work.
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Windows 10 Global Shortcut

Guys I have a problem that is grinding my gears for a couple of days. First of all I'm using Windows 10 Insider Preview build 14295.rs1_release.106318-1628. After updated to that version (I don't know ...
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How do I reassign win x in windows 8 to open chrome?

and for that matter how do I reassign any win+ combo? (I am using a small software called winhotkey but it can only assign free letters with the win button - and Windows 8 has almost all the letters ...
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How to reset the hotkeys and shortcuts in windows 8

Something went wrong in my windows 8, the windows button's stopped working and I can't live without Win+D, Win+E, Win+L..etc. Is there any way to reset this shortcuts?
Alaa Alweish's user avatar
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What is the hotkey to select the first text input area in firefox?

I found out about it yesterday. When you press it, the cursor will move to the first text input area in the web page. It's completely wiped from my mind now though. Note: I am using windows 7
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How can I clear the current line of the Windows command prompt?

How can I clear the current line in the command prompt? (I'm using Windows 7.) Too often, I enter a command, execute it, get many lines of output, then wish to enter another command. But before ...
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