25 Useful Keyboard Shortcuts for Windows XP Users

If you’re like me, your experience when you sit down at the computer is more of a ‘point and click’ thing than a ‘carpal tunnel generating’ thing. However, there are times (rare maybe) that I spend a little more time at the keyboard, and I find it irritating to have to scroll through a menu or use the mouse. Franklin gave a pretty comprehensive list for OS X users here, but I don’t have a Mac so it wasn’t as useful for me as it probably was for Steve Jobs. So for the Windows XP users out there (and Bill of course!) I’ve comprised a list of the top 25 keyboard shortcuts that I use just about daily. This is by no means a complete list of shortcuts, just ones that I find pretty handy (he he).

I hope these help. If you spend more time at the keyboard and need a more complete list, go here. You will find that some of the commands work in multiple programs, but I just listed them according to the programs I use most. I also don’t know if these shortcuts work in Vista; I’m more comfortable with XP. It’s been my experience that XP works better anyway.