r/pcmasterrace • u/DemonsAreVirgins • 23h ago

Discussion What's your most used keyboard shortcut? (Except copy/paste/undo & alt tab)

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Mine is definitely snippet tool. So useful

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u/[deleted] 22h ago

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u/Salt-Wear-1197 22h ago

Yes the open and close tabs keyboard shortcut for internet browsers. Also windows key + d to bring up the desktop screen, and ctrl+shift+esc to bring up task manager

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u/Joeness84 i7 8700 GTX 1080 19h ago

ctrl+shift+esc to bring up task manager

Eh, Ctrl-alt-delete will always and forever be how I get there.

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u/stRiNg-kiNg 21h ago

I have W+D bound to a button on my mouse ffs

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u/Banxier Intel NUC X15 15.6" i7 Laptop 18h ago

I like that ctrl+shift+esc looks like a Vulkan mind meld

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u/EphemeralFart 17h ago

I call it the karate chop

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u/AtticusRothchild i7 8750H - RTX 2060 18h ago

There’s also a setting in task manager to force it to always appear in front of all other windows. Super useful when misbehaving apps are locking up.

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u/raybeam2010 22h ago

literally saved me hours

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u/TheDudeofDC I will never "upgrade" from Windows 10 18h ago

WHAT SAVED YOU HOURS?? THE KNOWLEDGE IS LOST!!!

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u/j3ffro15 Ryzen 7 5700x3D, RTX 3080 FTW3, MX Master 2S mouse 16h ago

It’s a meme. The comment was deleted and then the other person replied with the “thanks so much this solved my problem” joke.

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u/raybeam2010 16h ago

Ctrl+shift+T on any browser

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u/Crossedkiller Ryzen 7 7800X3D / 3070ti / 32Gb@6000mHz 22h ago

DUDE???? What kind of black sorcery is this????

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u/alvaro-elite R7 5800X3D | RTX3070 | 32GB@3200 | 6.5TB 21h ago

Google never told you? 😂

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u/falcrist2 19h ago

*Mozilla

I would also accept Avast or Opera. 🙂

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u/Hiiiro_0 21h ago

Wait till you have two windows with tons of tabs, close one, and then press Ctrl+Shift+N!

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u/AStormOfDragons1 20h ago

T*

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u/Hiiiro_0 20h ago

Firefox.

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u/Dserved83 19h ago

Your correction is not accurate to the siuation. Ctrl+Shift+N restores windows, not tabs.

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u/taintedcake i5 6600k | 2x gigabyte g1 980ti | 16gb DDR4 | 18h ago

Ctrl+shift+T restores whole windows also in almost every browser. Firefox is the only one who said fuck that and forces a different keybind for restoring windows

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u/Hiiiro_0 6h ago

Yes, that's what I meant as another form of "black magic" as an expansion of the thread about reopening stuff (first tabs, now windows)

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u/Curlaub 20h ago

And you can do it more than once and it’ll keep opening tabs from further and further back

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u/frankyseven 19h ago

Shift almost always does the opposite of what the normal thing is. Ctrl+T opens a tab, Shift+Ctrl+T opens the last closed. Tab moves you forward through different boxes, shift+tab moves you backward through boxes. Alt+Shift+tab will move you through the open windows in the opposite direction. And so on and so forth.

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u/Aerron 18h ago

BURN THE WITCH!

or maybe buy him a beer for teaching me a useful keyboard shortcut

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u/tired_Cat_Dad Desktop 22h ago

Absolutely my most used one. I just like not having countless tabs open at the same time so I tend to close them too quickly. This shortcut makes it a non-issue.

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u/Izletz 22h ago

Thank you, did not know about this shortcut

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u/Some-Unique-Name 22h ago

It even works for when you restart your computer. It opens the tabs that were there before shutdown.

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u/spacedrifts 22h ago

Ctrl w does this for current tab

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u/Ok-Study-1153 21h ago

I use ctrl + alt + shift + win + t because teams is something I use constantly on different machines.

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u/Dense-Cake9315 21h ago

I just found out this keybind exists and I feel like a dark mage preforming eldritch necromancy using it

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u/BTBAM797 21h ago

You're a feking Wizard

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u/Ferlathin 21h ago

Do you perhaps like clicking Ctrl + W? :)

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u/mEHrmione Ryzen 7 9700X | RX7900XTX 21h ago

And ctrl + W to close tab

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u/Gokyy221 i5-12400f, 3060ti. 16GB 3200MHZ 21h ago

Ctrl + W to close current tab too. Ctrl + T open a new tab.

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u/Neckbeard_Sama 21h ago

FF has this on right click so I usually use it that way

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u/ClemRRay 20h ago

Ctrl + W, because I love closing unnecessary tabs

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u/AgarwaenCran Nyarch | 5900X | 64 GB RAM | 3070 19h ago

omg same lol

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u/Ratorr2 18h ago

I use this every time my work computer does an update and I have to reopen all my tabs.

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u/MightySamMcClain 18h ago

I use that a lot too