With so many tools and options, Windows can be a vast piece of software to learn and use. To help make things easier, here are a series of images to help you some of the complete common actions when using the Windows Desktop and applications. For a full list of all official shortcuts, please visit: https://support.microsoft.com/en-gb/help/12445/windows-keyboard-shortcuts .
If the keys appear too small on your screen or you would prefer to download a copy of these layouts, please use the attachments at the bottom of this article.
Standard Shortcuts (just press the key):
Ctrl Layer Shortcuts (Hold down the left or right Ctrl keys whilst pressing these keys):
Please note the differences in how the Clipboard functios work:
- Cut will mark a file to be moved. This ultimately means creating a replica version at the specified location and deleting the original version.
- Copy will mark a file to be duplicated. The replica will be made where specified, but the old version will be maintained.
These two actions don't actually do anything until you execute the Paste command, which creates the replica file. If you change your mind, you may simply cut/copy another file or use "paste" in the original location (this will throw an error, which can be safely ignored).
It should also be noted that Undo and Redo will amend commands up to a point and is used for restoring/repeating actions such as moving or copying files, renaming or sending files to the Recycle Bin. When confirming a warning about actions that cannot be undone (such as emptying the Recycle Bin or permanently deleting files), these keys will not work.
Super Key Layer (Hold down either of the 
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keys, depending on your keyboard style, whilst pressing these keys):
- Blue Arrow Keys - These will behave differently depending on where the window is on your desktop and if you have multiple monitors set to "Extended Desktop" (and how many screens you may have). For instance, if you have dual monitors & window is snapped to the left side of your left-hand monitor, when you press Windows + right arrow your window will unsnap to normal on the left-hand monitor, then snap to the right of the left-hand monitor, then the left of the right-hand monitor, then normal on the right-hand monitor and finally to the right of the right hand monitor. A similar occurrence will happen with the up and down arrow keys, replacing the snapping with maximise on the top-most monitor (if you have them arranged vertically) and minimised on the bottom most monitor.
- Pink Keys - Whilst all 3 keys will display the same result, these behave differently.
- The D key can act as a toggle if no other window is touched between key presses (1st press shows the Desktop, 2nd press brings back your windows in the same order as before), if another window is touched it will count as a 1st Press again and show the desktop.
- The M key will just minimise all open windows and doesn't bring them back on a second press.
- The comma/greater than key will "peek" the desktop whilst the Windows key is held down and shows all your windows again as soon as you let go.
- Red R Key - Due to user permissions, the Run dialog will only work on Trust PCs for those with an administrator ("A") account.
Alt Key Layer (Hold down either of the Alt Keys, whilst pressing these keys):
Ctrl & Alt Layer (Hold down either of the Ctrl Keys and either of the Alt Keys together, whilst pressing these keys):
- Blue Keys - These are context sensitive to the screen you have focus on. For example when a window is selected on a second screen and these keys are pressed, it will only rotate the image on that screen and leave the other one as it is.
- It should be noted that the number pad keys will only work with Num Lock turned OFF.