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You can use these hidden gems to reassign or disable keys on your keyboard, detect pixel colours in a website, display a Windows short-cut key guide … and much more!
- Power Toys: tools to tweak the behaviour of Windows
- Using the colour picker
- The keyboard manager
- Using the mouse utilties to find your mouse
- The Windows key shortcut guide (this blog)
Posted by Andy Brown on 20 January 2022
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The Windows key shortcut guide
If you're not sure what the various Windows keys do, this little utility will be so useful!
You can change the short-cut key which brings up the short-cut guide; by default you can get to it by holding down the Windows key (naturally) and pressing Shift + /.
Your current window shows in a panel, with the Windows keys round it:
The live version looks a lot better!
Here's a part of the short-cut keys shown:
Weirdly, you can change the transparency of the short-cut key panel.
Of course a tool to remind you of the Windows short-cut keys is only any use if you can remember which Windows short-cut key to press to run it ...
- Power Toys: tools to tweak the behaviour of Windows
- Using the colour picker
- The keyboard manager
- Using the mouse utilties to find your mouse
- The Windows key shortcut guide (this blog)