IBM T43 Keyboard Shortcuts for Windows

IBM T43

Keyboard Shortcuts

for Windows

 

Table of Contents

Table of Contents

Outline

1. T43 Keyboard vs. T60 Keyboard

2. IBM Keyboard customize utility

3. Keyboard shortcuts for Windows

3.1 The basic operations

3.1.1 The logo key combinations

3.1.2 The Alt key combinations

3.1.3 Functional keys

3.1.4 Ctrl or Shift key combinations

3.2 The Windows Explorer operations

3.3 The Dialog operations

Index

 

Outline

Working with keyboard shortcuts is more effective than mouse, especially for programmer J .

 

There has no Windows logo key and application key on IBM T43, but I heard IBM T60 will add this two keys, exactly, I don’t know this is a good news or bad news.

 

Oh, please excuse me, in this article I’ll introduce some keyboard shortcuts which you had never used J .

1. T43 Keyboard vs. T60 Keyboard

The IBM T60 keyboard remains old IBM ThinkPad keyboard style, but only shortens the spacebar key; you can see the following figures.

 

The Windows logo key and application key is powerful? Or, there is no way to use keyboard shortcuts for Windows without logo/application key? What’s the really case? If I working on the other perfect OS such as Ubuntu, or multi-boot OS.

 

2. IBM Keyboard customize utility

If you like Windows logo and application keys, you can use IBM keyboard customize utility to mapping those keys.

 

Figure-3 IBM Keyboard customize utility

3. Keyboard shortcuts for Windows

I’ll use logo key to indicate Windows logo key, and application key to indicate Windows application key.

 

3.1 The basic operations

 

3.1.1 The logo key combinations

 

logo                               Display or hide the start menu

logo + Break                  Display or hide start menu

 

logo + D                         Shows the desktop

logo + E                         Display or hide start menu

logo + R                         Display the run dialog

logo + M                         Minimizes all windows

logo + U                         Open the utility manager dialog

 

logo + F                          Display the find dialog

logo + Ctrl + F                Open the find computer dialog, if on desktop

 

 

3.1.2 The Alt key combinations

 

Alt + Esc                         Cycle through the items in the order they were opened

Alt + F4                          Close the active item, or quit the active program

Alt + Spacebar                Display the system menu for the active window

Alt + Tab                        Switch open the items

 

3.1.3 Functional keys

 

F2                                   Rename selected item

F3                                   Search

F4                                   Display the address bar on windows explorer

F6                                   Cycle through the items in a window or on the desktop

F10                                 Active the menu bar in the active program

 

3.1.4 Ctrl or Shift key combinations

 

Ctrl + Shift + Esc            Display the start menu

Shift + F10                     Display the shortcut menu for the selected item

Shift                               Prevent the CD from automatically playing when you insert CD into the CD-ROM

3.2 The Windows Explorer operations

 

Left Arrow                     Collapse current selection if it’s expanded or select parent folder

Right Arrow                   Display current selection if it’s collapsed, or select first subfolder

Backspace                      Return to up-level on dictionary tree

3.3 The Dialog operations

 

Ctrl + Tab                       Move forward through tabs

Ctrl + Shift + Tab            Move backward through tabs

Tab                                 Move forward through options

Shift + Tab                     Move backward through options

Spacebar                       Select or clear the check box if the active option is a check box

F4                                   Display the items in the active list

Index