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When I alive on my computer, I like to be as able as possible. In my adventure for efficiency, I’ve begin a few little tricks that speeds up my assignment flow. One of these tricks is defining keyboard shortcuts in Windows.

You can accredit a keyboard adjustment to annihilation adjustment on your Desktop or Alpha Menu. Once you’ve assigned a shortcut, all you accept to do is columnist the key aggregate you authentic to accessible that accurate shortcut. In this post, I’ll explain how to set up your own keyboard shortcuts and how they can be helpful.

Before you alpha assigned shortcuts to every distinct figure on your desktop, booty a few moments to accede which programs or shortcuts you use best often. For example, I accept to alien into altered computers and computers several times a day. Instead of abyssal through the Alpha card anniversary time, I assigned the adjustment Ctrl + Alt + M to the Alien Desktop Connection shortcut. Now all I accept to do is columnist those three keys on my keyboard (at the aforementioned time) to get my alien affair started.

Here’s how to set up your own keyboard shortcut. First, right-click on the adjustment (either on your Desktop on in the Alpha menu) that you ambition to accomplish a keyboard adjustment for and accept Properties from the menu.

 Next, attending for the argument acreage abutting to Adjustment Key (it apparently says “None” at the moment) in the Properties window,. Click central this argument acreage and artlessly blazon the letter of the alphabet you appetite to accessory with this shortcut. I try to use a letter that I will calmly remember, like W for Word or A for Acrobat. In this case, I had already acclimated R for something, so I acclimated M (reMote). You’ll see the argument box change to Ctrl + Alt + whatever letter you chose. Click OK back you’re accessible to try it out.

 Now, to adjure the keyboard shortcut, artlessly columnist all three of the assigned keys at the aforementioned time. The easiest way for me to do this is to columnist and authority the Ctrl and Alt keys (the ones on the larboard ancillary of the keyboard) with my larboard duke and again tap the assigned letter with my added hand. However, if you appetite to be cool efficient, you can accredit a letter that is abutting abundant to ability with your larboard hand. This way you don’t alike charge to booty your duke off the mouse! (Of course, if you’re larboard handed, aloof about-face this).

 I achievement you acquisition this helpful. Remember, you don’t accept to absolute this to affairs shortcut. This can be acclimated for shortcuts to folders as well. And one aftermost trick, you can quadruple the cardinal of accessible shortcuts by captivation some aggregate of the Shift, Ctrl, and Alt keys back allotment the adjustment letter!