{"id":288,"date":"2007-01-02T11:11:11","date_gmt":"2007-01-02T09:11:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.en.softonic.com\/2007\/01\/02\/shortcuts-to-a-more-productive-life\/"},"modified":"2025-07-02T03:00:47","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T10:00:47","slug":"shortcuts-to-a-more-productive-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/shortcuts-to-a-more-productive-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Keyboard Shortcuts to a More Productive Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Keyboard shortcuts are one of those things that most people either use regularly or hardly use at all. I&#8217;m a mouse man most of the time because, by the time I&#8217;ve taken my hand off it to work out the correct shortcut, I could have done the same thing in half the time with my trusty mouse.<\/p>\n<p>However, someone introduced me to a useful Windows keyboard shortcut yesterday that&#8217;s reinvigorated my interest in finding out how many other shortcuts there are out there.<\/p>\n<p>Whenever Windows used to crash, I would bring up the task manager with &#8220;CTRL-ALT-DEL&#8221; so I could eliminate the process which was causing the problem. In fact, &#8220;CTRL-SHIFT-ESC&#8221; does the job a lot quicker by going directly to the running processes box rather than starting with the running applications dialogue box.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, you might be aware of some of them already but <a title=\"http:\/\/www.hongkiat.com\/blog\/2006\/12\/18\/100-keyboard-shortcuts-windows\/\" href=\"https:\/\/features.en.softonic.com\/windows-10-the-45-most-useful-keyboard-shortcuts-2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> here is<\/a> a selection of 45 shortcuts for Windows 10 that you may have never used. Are you a Mac user? Fear not: our <a href=\"https:\/\/features.en.softonic.com\/mac-keyboard-shortcuts-the-ultimate-guide\/\">Ultimate Guide to Mac Keyboard Shortcuts<\/a> is just what you need.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Keyboard shortcuts are one of those things that most people either use regularly or hardly use at all. 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