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Lock your PC or switch accounts вЂ“ Windows Key + L It can also be activated with this shortcut. It already exists as that little vertical sliver next to the time in the system tray. Display and hide the desktop вЂ“ Windows Key + DДЇor a quick hide of your desktop for when your kids walk in the room while youвЂ™re shopping on Amazon for their Christmas presents, a quick hide would be nice. With these shortcuts, you can get the job done quickly to automatically size a window to 50% of the width of your screen. However, this takes slightly longer to do than a simply maximize or minimize button click. One of my favorite features of Windows 7 was slamming (or snapping) a window to the left 50% or right 50% of the screen. Snap left (and Snap right) вЂ“ Windows Key + Left or Right key. The slick part of this is if you continue to hold the Windows Key and now use the previous shortcut, Windows Key + Up key, it will bring the application off the toolbar again, and another Windows Key + Up key will maximize it. If you keep the Windows Key pressed and press down again, it will minimize to the toolbar. If your window is maximized first, it will resize it to a window. Very similar to the last shortcut, instead of clicking the minimize button, you can do a staged minimize with this shortcut. No surprise here on the functionality, but if you are typing away and donвЂ™t want to use the mouse to click the maximize button, this is available. We have been using maximize for as long as Windows existed. In this blog, IвЂ™ll cover some of the ones I find more useful to use. We can pull back the curtains and see what was always available, but never known of. It also gives us a window into the outside.

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This PowerToy is simply a quick help on some conveniences that Microsoft is already providing to all Windows 10 users. Half the battle is knowing what key combination will make your life easier by changing your day to day interactions with your computer. There are a great many ways to do tasks quicker in Windows. I havenвЂ™t explored the 3 new toys yet, so this blog will focus on the PowerToys Shortcut Guide.

Window Walker (Text-based alt-tab alternative).

Included in the current release (as of this writing v0.16) of PowerToys are 6 available toys: You can download the installer at the same location at GitHub here: Microsoft is looking for contributions to it from developers, along with any feedback there.

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Full source code is available here on GitHub. Now on version 0.16 (from 0.14), there are more than the original 3 toys included in PowerToys. However, as with everything Microsoft, PowerToys has received some updates. This blog was originally part 4 of a 4 part series on PowerToys.

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