Why did the Windows 95 Start button have a secret shortcut for closing it?
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Re: Why did the Windows 95 Start button have a secret shortcut for closing it?
#2There are some cool hidden shortcuts (for killing explorer.exe mentioned in the comments:
1. Open the start menu, hold ctrl+shift, click the "power" button. A context-menu appears which lets you kill Explorer (explorer.exe).
2. Click on taskbar, press alt+f4, "Shut Down Windows" dialog appears. Holt ctrl+alt+shift and click "cancel" to kill explorer.exe
Anyone else know of interesting hidden shortcuts (not necessarily to kill explorer.exe)?
Re: Why did the Windows 95 Start button have a secret shortcut for closing it?
#3Was anyone actually aware of this Alt+hyphen shortcut?
Re: Why did the Windows 95 Start button have a secret shortcut for closing it?
#4Anyone got a screenshot?
Re: Why did the Windows 95 Start button have a secret shortcut for closing it?
#5Was anyone actually aware of this Alt+hyphen shortcut?
I'm pretty sure I remember it from Windows 3.1.
Re: Why did the Windows 95 Start button have a secret shortcut for closing it?
#6Was anyone actually aware of this Alt+hyphen shortcut?
It's the first time I heard of it.
standard Windows controls has so many cool shortcuts. Like the RichEdit control, you can use Alt+X to switch between hex and character.
Re: Why did the Windows 95 Start button have a secret shortcut for closing it?
#7Is there any shortcuts to make the start button reappear?
Re: Why did the Windows 95 Start button have a secret shortcut for closing it?
#8There are some cool hidden shortcuts (for killing explorer.exe mentioned in the comments: 1. Open the start menu, hold ctrl+shift, click the "power" button. A context-menu appears which lets you kill Explorer (explorer.exe). 2. Click on taskbar, press alt+f4, "Shut Down Windows" dialog appears. Holt ctrl+alt+shift and click "cancel" to kill explorer.exe Anyone else know of interesting hidden shortcuts (not necessaril…
Actually, you can Ctrl+Shift+Click anywhere on the Start menu in Windows 7 to get this menu, not just the power button. In Windows 8, it was also added to the ctrl+shift+click menu on the taskbar as well.
Ctrl+Shift+Click (and sometimes just Shift+Click) works all over Windows Explorer to provide extra context menu options. For example if you Shift+Click on a jumplist program item, you'll get more options on that menu as well (Run as admin (Ctrl+Shift+Click on the taskbar icon to invoke this as well)).
There's even more new in Win8 (I don't have Win7 handy to test on, not sure if these were in there too): Shift+Right-cclick will give you 'Open in new process' and 'Open command window here.'
Edit: Thanks SquareWheel - you're right only Shift is needed for 'Open Command window here' and some other options.
Re: Why did the Windows 95 Start button have a secret shortcut for closing it?
#9Was anyone actually aware of this Alt+hyphen shortcut?
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Re: Why did the Windows 95 Start button have a secret shortcut for closing it?
#10There are some cool hidden shortcuts (for killing explorer.exe mentioned in the comments: 1. Open the start menu, hold ctrl+shift, click the "power" button. A context-menu appears which lets you kill Explorer (explorer.exe). 2. Click on taskbar, press alt+f4, "Shut Down Windows" dialog appears. Holt ctrl+alt+shift and click "cancel" to kill explorer.exe Anyone else know of interesting hidden shortcuts (not necessaril…
Actually, you can Ctrl+Shift+Click anywhere on the Start menu in Windows 7 to get this menu, not just the power button. In Windows 8, it was also added to the ctrl+shift+click menu on the taskbar as well. Ctrl+Shift+Click (and sometimes just Shift+Click) works all over Windows Explorer to provide extra context menu options. For example if you Shift+Click on a jumplist program item, you'll get more options on that men…
As far as I understand, you only need to hold shift for extra context menu items. I use this with "Open command window here" frequently.