Desktop shortcuts
You can use these keyboard shortcuts to open, close, navigate, and perform tasks more quickly throughout the desktop experience, including the Start menu, Taskbar, Settings, and more.
You can also check all windows 11 shortcut keys related to the different types. Please check the bottom of the page where we have listed different types of shortcut keys links.
For Windows 11 shortcut keys for desktop shortcut keys are listed below, please check and if anything is remaining then please comment at the bottom of the page comment form and we will update it as soon as possible.
Nowadays, we need to do any task or action faster as of the scope of the IT field. Every work we need to complete faster and yes we can but for that, we need to know about the shortcut keys.
Why do we need to know about the shortcut keys, the reason of that if we know about all shortcut keys of different types of the actions, and when we need to use any action(shortcut key) it increases our time and makes us faster so all computer shortcut keys are important to do any action faster.
Windows 11 Official Site
Windows 11 provide a quick way to navigate and operate the experience and features using one or multiple key combos, which otherwise would take several clicks and more time to do the same with a mouse and we are covering here only Windows 11 shortcut keys for desktop.
It really faster for new users or existing users which is already using and they are faster and excellent speed to do anything.
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Keyboard shortcut
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Action
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Windows key + E
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Open File Explorer.
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Alt + D
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Select address bar.
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Ctrl + E (or F)
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Select search box.
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Ctrl + N
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Open new window.
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Ctrl + W
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Close active window.
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Ctrl + F (or F3)
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Start search.
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Ctrl + Mouse scroll wheel
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Change view file and folder.
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Ctrl + Shift + E
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Expands all folders from the tree in the navigation pane.
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Ctrl + Shift + N
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Creates a new folder on desktop or File Explorer.
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Ctrl + L
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Focus on the address bar.
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Ctrl + Shift + Number (1-8)
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Changes folder view.
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Alt + P
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Display preview panel.
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Alt + Enter
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Open Properties settings for the selected item.
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Alt + Right arrow key
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View next folder.
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Alt + Left arrow key (or Backspace)
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View previous folder.
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Alt + Up arrow
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Move up a level in the folder path.
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F11
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Switch active window full-screen mode.
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F5
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Refresh the instance of File Explorer.
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F2
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Rename selected item.
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F4
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Switch focus to address bar.
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F5
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Refresh File Explorer's current view.
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F6
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Cycle through elements on the screen.
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Home
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Scroll to the top of the window.
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End
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Scroll to the bottom of the window.
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Also, you can check windows 11 shortcut keys from the Microsoft official site and you can check the below other related links:
Essential shortcuts
Desktop shortcuts
File Explorer shortcuts
Settings page shortcuts
Command Prompt shortcuts
Windows key shortcuts
