So that's the title suggests this is all about improving your Windows 11 experience.
So the features, functionality and shortcuts I'm going to introduce you to are worth memorizing.
And I don't just mean from this tutorial, but of course, throughout the whole course as well.
You can save maybe thousands of hours just by spending a little time memorizing a few dozen shortcuts
and I literally mean thousands of hours time that can be spent with family, friends and maybe advancing
your career.
Now, if you've used windows before, then there's a good chance you will already know some of these
shortcuts.
But some of them could very well be new.
So anyway, let's get started.
So the first shortcut I'm going to show you is probably the most useful shortcut you could ever use
on a Windows computer.
It's a shortcut I've used for many years.
And basically what it does is it just allows you to jump between the current application you have open
and the last application.
You also have open, so you can just jump between those two applications just by using this one shortcut.
So in order for this to work, you have to have at least two applications open on your computer.
On my system, I have Chrome open and I also have Illustrator open here.
So let's say I want to quickly jump over to Illustrator.
While all I'd have to do is hold down the alt key and then press the tab key once.
And as you can see, it jumps right over.
And I'll do that again.
And I don't you can see this, but as I'm doing this, you can see there's a sort of in-between window
that shows up very briefly.
And that's basically this window hit.
Now to get this up and running.
What you have to do is you have to hold down alt control and then press the tab key, then let go of
all of the keys.
And here you can just get this overview of all of the applications that are open on your computer.
And to select any of these, you can just use your directional arrows and then press enter.
Or you can use your mouse, of course, or you can use the tab key.
But once again, the most useful shortcut is just to hold down Alt and quickly press the tab key.
To quickly jump back and forth between the two latest applications, now, let's say you wants to take
a look at something that's behind maybe your browser or any application that you have open.
What you can do is you can hold down the Windows key and press the down arrow once and then once again,
take a look at what you need to look at.
But just keep in mind that my finger is down on the windows key the whole time.
Now I can press the up arrow and then I'll press it once again.
And that reattach is the application in front of me now, if I were to do this.
Hold on the Windows key and press down on my keyboard and down once again, then let go of the windows
key.
Then press the Windows key once again.
Then press up to maybe try and bring back the browser, as you can see, what is being affected now
is Adobe Illustrator.
So once you let go of that Windows key, it disengages the connection with that particular application.
Now I have another two shortcuts, which allows you to kind of just shut down things straight away.
But I've decided not to show you in this tutorial because I know exactly what will happen.
You'll probably use those shortcuts and then close down this tutorial.
But what I've done is I've just included those two shortcuts within the downloadable resource that you
can download after this tutorial.
So what I'm going to do now is I'm going to hold on the Windows key and press down and down once again
to expose my desk top.
I'll let go of the windows key.
And what I'm going to do now is I'm just going to right click go to view and I will show my desktop
icons now quite a common functionality that I use quite a lot.
And that basically works.
And I would say pretty much most applications is just to hold down the control button and scroll forward
with the rollout on your mouse.
And as you can see, it makes things larger.
If you scroll forwards and then if you scroll backwards, it makes them smaller.
And of course, it works and your internet browser as well, like I said, it works in many different
applications.
If you don't using a mouse, all you have to do is just put your two fingers on the mouse pad.
Hold down control and move your fingers upwards to zoom in.
Or down to zoom out.
Now, if you find it hard to see something on your computer and you need to zoom in very quickly just
to take a closer look.
There is a shortcut to do that and all you have to do is just hold down the Windows key and press the
plus icon on your keyboard.
And then this happens, so you zoom right in now to zoom back out, you can hit these plus and minus
icons if you wanted to.
But you can also hold on the Windows key and press the plus and minus button on your keyboard.
Now, if you really are hard of sight, there is this functionality here where you can click on this
option here and anything you click on on your desktop or anywhere else on your computer.
Windows 11 will sound off or tell you what it is.
So.
Come.
I'm sure you heard that.
Let's go for this one here captures.
Help jihadi value.
Now let's get rid of this, you can just come to the axe here.
And the normal view will be restored.
Now, when I first open up my computer, typically I go to my browser and, you know, it's not that
difficult just to double click on Chrome here on my taskbar or maybe here on the desktop.
But there's an easier way of doing this.
All of these applications here starting from I think it was this one here.
One two three four five six seven eight.
Yeah, all of these applications starting from the store have a number that corresponds to it.
So my browser number is number five.
So to open this up with the shortcuts, I can hold down the Windows key and press five on my keyboard.
And you can see the browser opens up and then I can also do the same with Adobe Illustrator.
So something like that.
Now let's say I don't actually have Adobe Illustrator attached to my taskbar.
What I can do is I can find the actually let's go for no yet we'll use the Adobe Illustrator.
I can right click come down to show more options.
And then I'm going to click on Print Taskbar.
Now, these two applications here are only temporary.
But once these disappear, Adobe Illustrator will be, I suppose, where this black application is,
which is my movie video suite.
But right now where it is, the corresponding number is one two three, four, five, six, seven and
eight.
So that's the Windows key plus number eight.
And as you can see, it opens up.
And finally, the last two short cuts, if you hold down control shift and press end, you can create
a new folder on your desktop.
And then also, let's say, if you're working in an office environment or any environment where you
need to lock your computer straight away, all you have to do is just hold down the Windows key and
press L and you will be locked out of windows.
So typically when I share my office space with these other people that I don't know that well, when
I leave my computer, I tend just to hit that shortcuts so that I log out of windows, which means my
system is safe so long as they don't actually take the whole computer, but I am locked out of windows.
So those are the only shortcuts I want to show you in this tutorial.
And as you probably already know, there is a resource you can download afterwards with all of these
shortcuts that I've mentioned.