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Command+D: minimise / maximise all open windows, aka "Show Desktop".(For those not quite familiar with the lingo, Apple key is also known as 'Command', Alt is also known as 'Option')
#Bootcamp sound key for mac gives some weird windows on browsers windows#
You can get ridiculously fast at navigating your way through menus once you learn your shortcut keys! It's one of the features I miss the most in OSX I know you can open menus by clicking with the mouse, but that's not the point if you're a keyboard warrior like me 😉 (I hate using a mouse, it's such a slow way of interfacing with a computer.)Īnd while I'm at it, here's some generic Windows shortcuts for everyone to enjoy - mostly learnt through trial-and-error: If you hold down Alt, usually the "hotkey" to open each menu will gain a little underline to indicate what to press. (So to close Firefox for example, you can go Alt-F -> X).
Not sure what the key combo is? Just open the menu, and every option with a shortcut key available will display it underlined. For example, if you have a program open, pressing Ctrl+F will open the File menu. One insanely useful Windows feature which Macs still lack: you can open ANY program's main menus by using the appropriate hotkey (apart from programs designed with a nonstandard GUI - 99.9% of all apps have a standardised set of menus up top). Thank you Apple for not overwriting the default keyboard layout! To permanently set the standard British English layout, go into the Control Panel, open up Regional and Language Options, go to the Languages tab and then choose "English (United Kingdom) - United Kingdom". Using it, you can temporarily switch between the two layouts. Having multiple locales and keyboard layouts installed makes Windows display the Language bar in the system tray.
However, as I explained, to my muscle memory inverted commas (") are Shift-2 and the symbol is Shift-" (as shown on the MacBook keyboard), etc. As I set Windows up as English (United Kingdom), the Boot Camp Assistant installed "United Kingdom (Apple)" alongside - and it also set it as default.
To revert back to the regular British English keyboard layout, it's actually childishly simple. The backslash is also over by the left Shift key, not by the Return key (on regular keyboards, the Hash/Pound symbol is usually on the key where Apple chose to put their backslash). UK English keyboards have a slightly different configuration symbol is over by the Return key and not on the Number 2 key - inverted commas (") are there instead. If you're a touch-typist (like me), Boot Camp installs two keyboard layouts in Windows. Next, something I found VERY useful: you can change your keyboard layout back to the regular Windows layout! In Windows, you can also quickly reboot into OSX by clicking on the Assistant system tray and choosing "reboot into Mac OS X". If you want to change your default OS for dualbooting, use the Boot Camp Assistant applet (found in the Control Panel in Windows, and similarly in the OSX Options).
#Bootcamp sound key for mac gives some weird windows on browsers install#
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I'm using a MacBook Pro at work with Windows XP via Boot Camp - however, I was hampered by the lack of some key keys (pardon the pun) - no delete key! How do I Ctrl-Alt-Del? Argh! After some careful searching, I came across a great page listing most, if not all, of the various shortcut key combos you might need when using Windows on a Mac.
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