Start Menu Keyboard Shortcuts

On Windows 95 and 98 keyboards you have the windows fast keys to open the menu and start bar.  These generally do not work on NT.   All you have to do is press Ctrl-Esc. In previous versions of NT, pressing Ctrl-Esc opened the Windows NT Task List. In Windows NT Workstation 4.0, you press Ctrl-Shift-Esc to open the Task Manager.

Also, you can use Alt-Esc to toggle between open programs. This does not work like Alt-Tab. When you press Alt-Esc, Windows NT Workstation 4.0 toggles directly to a new window. This works only with windows that are not minimized. If you minimize a window, you can't reach it with Alt-Esc.

 

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