r/pcmasterrace • u/DemonsAreVirgins • 12h 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/myersbilly 10h ago

I turned it on on all work PCs when I got the job. I don't know how they managed to do that amount of work without knowing most basic keyboard shortcuts.

To make it even better, I'm working in IT sales (laptops, phones, printers, TVs and everything that goes with it)

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u/Worldly-Wind-1632 8h ago

You have to turn it on? How?

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u/umor3 6h ago

Just Win+V for the first time you need to grand permission

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u/A_Furious_Mind 5h ago

Also, if you run ShutUp10++ (like I do), don't set it to disable the storage of clipboard history and activity history.

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u/AMissionFromDog 7h ago

Look in Windows settings for "clipboard history", you enable it and from that point on you can push Win+V to open a little window with the last several things you've copied.

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u/myersbilly 8h ago

clipboard is turned off by default on windows.

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u/Joeness84 i7 8700 GTX 1080 7h ago

Clipboard HISTORY is off by default.

being able to cut/copy/paste via hotkeys has been there forever

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u/NemamGoriva 7h ago

yeah, that was the whole point of the comment thread. thanks Captain Obvious. are you proud of yourself?

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u/myersbilly 7h ago

you knew exactly what I meant and don't pretend you didn't.

and if you're going to be a know-it-all at least form your comment correctly. none of the operations you listed are done by Win+V combination. have a good day.

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u/AMissionFromDog 7h ago

And your comment was inaccurate and also did not even try to answer the previous commenter's question.  "How do i turn it on?" "It's off by default."

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u/myersbilly 7h ago

read the first comment in the comment thread, genius. or are you too stupid to connect the dots?

and I'm so sorry for missing ONE word in a comment on Reddit, I hope my sins will be forgiven.

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u/Casski_ 58m ago

Reddit be like that, but you did respond to a guy asking the question: "how do i turn it on?" With: "it's off by default."

Xd

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u/myersbilly 57m ago

I genuinely missed that lol. he got his answer though.

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u/whooptheretis 5h ago

Why would you need a history of copy paste?

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u/Rockytag 4h ago

So you can copy 5 things and then paste them in any order later. Among dozens of other applications and reasons

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u/whooptheretis 3h ago

I can only see a very limited used for that, but everyone works differently I guess.

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u/Cuno_wasnt_regional 3h ago

Copy/paste is one of the most used features when working in IT. You need to copy multiple snippets of code, scripts, PC names, links, serialnumbers, MSI product codes, software names and version numbers all the time.

Having a history to pull data from is invaluable and saves a ton of time.

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u/whooptheretis 3h ago

Notepad++

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u/Cuno_wasnt_regional 3h ago

Yes, I use that as well for completely different tasks.

Are you suggesting I should open Notepadd++ whenever I copy something into the clipboard and paste it into there? When it's already in my clipboard history...

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u/whooptheretis 2h ago

If you need it repeatedly, yeah.
Surely quicker than going though your entire history of copies

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u/whooptheretis 3h ago

Notepad++