Saturday, December 16, 2006

Vista: Keyboard Shortcuts for more Productivity

Noah Coad [1] posted some new Vista keyboard shortcuts [2]:

New Vista Commands

  • ALT + Up Arrow
    Move up a folder (to the parent folder)
  • ALT + Left Arrow
    Move back in history
  • ALT + Right Arrow
    Move forward in history
  • Backspace
    Move back in history
    (was move up a folder in WinXP)
  • CTRL+N
    Open new explorer (a file must be selected)
  • ALT+Drag&Drop
    Link to item (creates a shortcut)

More Vista-specific shortcuts can also be found at [3].

[1] http://blogs.msdn.com/noahc/default.aspx

[2] http://blogs.msdn.com/noahc/archive/2006/11/14/vista-keyboard-shortcuts-for-windows-explorer.aspx

[3] http://windowshelp.microsoft.com/Windows/en-US/Help/2503b91d-d780-4c80-8f08-2f48878dc5661033.mspx

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