1 00:00:00,150 --> 00:00:04,860 So that's the title suggests this is all about improving your Windows 11 experience. 2 00:00:05,190 --> 00:00:10,860 So the features, functionality and shortcuts I'm going to introduce you to are worth memorizing. 3 00:00:11,280 --> 00:00:15,570 And I don't just mean from this tutorial, but of course, throughout the whole course as well. 4 00:00:15,930 --> 00:00:22,710 You can save maybe thousands of hours just by spending a little time memorizing a few dozen shortcuts 5 00:00:22,980 --> 00:00:29,910 and I literally mean thousands of hours time that can be spent with family, friends and maybe advancing 6 00:00:29,910 --> 00:00:30,450 your career. 7 00:00:30,870 --> 00:00:34,650 Now, if you've used windows before, then there's a good chance you will already know some of these 8 00:00:34,650 --> 00:00:35,370 shortcuts. 9 00:00:35,730 --> 00:00:38,130 But some of them could very well be new. 10 00:00:38,580 --> 00:00:40,140 So anyway, let's get started. 11 00:00:41,140 --> 00:00:46,510 So the first shortcut I'm going to show you is probably the most useful shortcut you could ever use 12 00:00:46,510 --> 00:00:47,650 on a Windows computer. 13 00:00:48,010 --> 00:00:49,930 It's a shortcut I've used for many years. 14 00:00:50,260 --> 00:00:55,930 And basically what it does is it just allows you to jump between the current application you have open 15 00:00:56,260 --> 00:00:57,940 and the last application. 16 00:00:58,240 --> 00:01:04,960 You also have open, so you can just jump between those two applications just by using this one shortcut. 17 00:01:05,590 --> 00:01:09,490 So in order for this to work, you have to have at least two applications open on your computer. 18 00:01:09,970 --> 00:01:15,580 On my system, I have Chrome open and I also have Illustrator open here. 19 00:01:16,570 --> 00:01:18,850 So let's say I want to quickly jump over to Illustrator. 20 00:01:19,180 --> 00:01:23,620 While all I'd have to do is hold down the alt key and then press the tab key once. 21 00:01:25,130 --> 00:01:26,840 And as you can see, it jumps right over. 22 00:01:28,540 --> 00:01:29,470 And I'll do that again. 23 00:01:29,920 --> 00:01:35,290 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 24 00:01:35,500 --> 00:01:37,210 that shows up very briefly. 25 00:01:37,720 --> 00:01:39,430 And that's basically this window hit. 26 00:01:41,110 --> 00:01:42,460 Now to get this up and running. 27 00:01:42,610 --> 00:01:48,490 What you have to do is you have to hold down alt control and then press the tab key, then let go of 28 00:01:48,490 --> 00:01:49,300 all of the keys. 29 00:01:49,480 --> 00:01:54,130 And here you can just get this overview of all of the applications that are open on your computer. 30 00:01:54,640 --> 00:01:58,810 And to select any of these, you can just use your directional arrows and then press enter. 31 00:01:59,260 --> 00:02:02,560 Or you can use your mouse, of course, or you can use the tab key. 32 00:02:04,380 --> 00:02:09,180 But once again, the most useful shortcut is just to hold down Alt and quickly press the tab key. 33 00:02:11,050 --> 00:02:16,690 To quickly jump back and forth between the two latest applications, now, let's say you wants to take 34 00:02:16,690 --> 00:02:21,160 a look at something that's behind maybe your browser or any application that you have open. 35 00:02:21,520 --> 00:02:27,040 What you can do is you can hold down the Windows key and press the down arrow once and then once again, 36 00:02:27,730 --> 00:02:29,290 take a look at what you need to look at. 37 00:02:29,530 --> 00:02:33,100 But just keep in mind that my finger is down on the windows key the whole time. 38 00:02:33,520 --> 00:02:36,670 Now I can press the up arrow and then I'll press it once again. 39 00:02:37,820 --> 00:02:41,520 And that reattach is the application in front of me now, if I were to do this. 40 00:02:41,540 --> 00:02:47,270 Hold on the Windows key and press down on my keyboard and down once again, then let go of the windows 41 00:02:47,270 --> 00:02:47,600 key. 42 00:02:49,280 --> 00:02:50,850 Then press the Windows key once again. 43 00:02:51,900 --> 00:02:57,780 Then press up to maybe try and bring back the browser, as you can see, what is being affected now 44 00:02:58,230 --> 00:02:59,640 is Adobe Illustrator. 45 00:02:59,700 --> 00:03:05,400 So once you let go of that Windows key, it disengages the connection with that particular application. 46 00:03:06,240 --> 00:03:11,580 Now I have another two shortcuts, which allows you to kind of just shut down things straight away. 47 00:03:11,940 --> 00:03:16,140 But I've decided not to show you in this tutorial because I know exactly what will happen. 48 00:03:16,350 --> 00:03:19,860 You'll probably use those shortcuts and then close down this tutorial. 49 00:03:20,250 --> 00:03:25,800 But what I've done is I've just included those two shortcuts within the downloadable resource that you 50 00:03:25,800 --> 00:03:27,690 can download after this tutorial. 51 00:03:28,260 --> 00:03:32,460 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 52 00:03:32,460 --> 00:03:33,960 to expose my desk top. 53 00:03:34,290 --> 00:03:35,540 I'll let go of the windows key. 54 00:03:36,060 --> 00:03:42,090 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 55 00:03:42,090 --> 00:03:46,500 icons now quite a common functionality that I use quite a lot. 56 00:03:46,500 --> 00:03:47,430 And that basically works. 57 00:03:47,430 --> 00:03:53,910 And I would say pretty much most applications is just to hold down the control button and scroll forward 58 00:03:53,910 --> 00:03:55,980 with the rollout on your mouse. 59 00:03:56,640 --> 00:03:58,500 And as you can see, it makes things larger. 60 00:03:59,780 --> 00:04:04,460 If you scroll forwards and then if you scroll backwards, it makes them smaller. 61 00:04:06,120 --> 00:04:10,710 And of course, it works and your internet browser as well, like I said, it works in many different 62 00:04:10,710 --> 00:04:11,610 applications. 63 00:04:12,750 --> 00:04:17,340 If you don't using a mouse, all you have to do is just put your two fingers on the mouse pad. 64 00:04:18,150 --> 00:04:21,960 Hold down control and move your fingers upwards to zoom in. 65 00:04:22,930 --> 00:04:24,640 Or down to zoom out. 66 00:04:25,030 --> 00:04:30,190 Now, if you find it hard to see something on your computer and you need to zoom in very quickly just 67 00:04:30,190 --> 00:04:31,390 to take a closer look. 68 00:04:31,720 --> 00:04:36,820 There is a shortcut to do that and all you have to do is just hold down the Windows key and press the 69 00:04:36,820 --> 00:04:38,440 plus icon on your keyboard. 70 00:04:42,640 --> 00:04:49,150 And then this happens, so you zoom right in now to zoom back out, you can hit these plus and minus 71 00:04:49,150 --> 00:04:51,140 icons if you wanted to. 72 00:04:52,400 --> 00:04:56,540 But you can also hold on the Windows key and press the plus and minus button on your keyboard. 73 00:04:58,690 --> 00:05:05,890 Now, if you really are hard of sight, there is this functionality here where you can click on this 74 00:05:06,010 --> 00:05:12,640 option here and anything you click on on your desktop or anywhere else on your computer. 75 00:05:13,330 --> 00:05:17,110 Windows 11 will sound off or tell you what it is. 76 00:05:17,230 --> 00:05:17,620 So. 77 00:05:18,800 --> 00:05:19,220 Come. 78 00:05:23,190 --> 00:05:24,180 I'm sure you heard that. 79 00:05:24,210 --> 00:05:26,880 Let's go for this one here captures. 80 00:05:30,850 --> 00:05:32,340 Help jihadi value. 81 00:05:33,100 --> 00:05:35,500 Now let's get rid of this, you can just come to the axe here. 82 00:05:36,550 --> 00:05:38,530 And the normal view will be restored. 83 00:05:39,100 --> 00:05:44,290 Now, when I first open up my computer, typically I go to my browser and, you know, it's not that 84 00:05:44,290 --> 00:05:49,870 difficult just to double click on Chrome here on my taskbar or maybe here on the desktop. 85 00:05:50,500 --> 00:05:52,570 But there's an easier way of doing this. 86 00:05:52,840 --> 00:05:56,740 All of these applications here starting from I think it was this one here. 87 00:05:57,250 --> 00:06:00,850 One two three four five six seven eight. 88 00:06:02,650 --> 00:06:08,200 Yeah, all of these applications starting from the store have a number that corresponds to it. 89 00:06:08,830 --> 00:06:12,490 So my browser number is number five. 90 00:06:12,820 --> 00:06:17,050 So to open this up with the shortcuts, I can hold down the Windows key and press five on my keyboard. 91 00:06:18,180 --> 00:06:22,710 And you can see the browser opens up and then I can also do the same with Adobe Illustrator. 92 00:06:23,880 --> 00:06:25,350 So something like that. 93 00:06:25,770 --> 00:06:30,600 Now let's say I don't actually have Adobe Illustrator attached to my taskbar. 94 00:06:32,370 --> 00:06:38,310 What I can do is I can find the actually let's go for no yet we'll use the Adobe Illustrator. 95 00:06:38,880 --> 00:06:42,540 I can right click come down to show more options. 96 00:06:43,410 --> 00:06:45,420 And then I'm going to click on Print Taskbar. 97 00:06:47,020 --> 00:06:49,660 Now, these two applications here are only temporary. 98 00:06:50,110 --> 00:06:55,060 But once these disappear, Adobe Illustrator will be, I suppose, where this black application is, 99 00:06:55,240 --> 00:06:56,980 which is my movie video suite. 100 00:06:57,340 --> 00:07:05,260 But right now where it is, the corresponding number is one two three, four, five, six, seven and 101 00:07:05,260 --> 00:07:05,770 eight. 102 00:07:07,310 --> 00:07:09,530 So that's the Windows key plus number eight. 103 00:07:10,250 --> 00:07:11,780 And as you can see, it opens up. 104 00:07:13,140 --> 00:07:18,540 And finally, the last two short cuts, if you hold down control shift and press end, you can create 105 00:07:18,540 --> 00:07:20,310 a new folder on your desktop. 106 00:07:21,470 --> 00:07:26,210 And then also, let's say, if you're working in an office environment or any environment where you 107 00:07:26,210 --> 00:07:30,890 need to lock your computer straight away, all you have to do is just hold down the Windows key and 108 00:07:30,890 --> 00:07:34,280 press L and you will be locked out of windows. 109 00:07:34,850 --> 00:07:40,790 So typically when I share my office space with these other people that I don't know that well, when 110 00:07:40,790 --> 00:07:46,580 I leave my computer, I tend just to hit that shortcuts so that I log out of windows, which means my 111 00:07:46,580 --> 00:07:52,430 system is safe so long as they don't actually take the whole computer, but I am locked out of windows. 112 00:07:52,700 --> 00:07:55,100 So those are the only shortcuts I want to show you in this tutorial. 113 00:07:55,520 --> 00:07:59,570 And as you probably already know, there is a resource you can download afterwards with all of these 114 00:07:59,570 --> 00:08:01,010 shortcuts that I've mentioned.