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LTK:
I get the impression that keyboards shortcuts are fading into obsolescence for whatever reason, while our screens keep getting bigger, making us do more work with the mouse when the keyboard could be used much more efficiently. So why don't we share the keyboard shortcuts that did the most for making our work and play easier?

First, for internet browsing, there's the middle click. Many mice do this by pressing the wheel, but I have a little button just below the wheel that normally does the same as windows+tab, but I rebinded (rebound?) it to a middle click, which is far more useful. Clicking a link (or an adress bar entry) with the middle mouse button opens it in a new tab. Shift+middle click opens it in a new tab, and switches to the new tab. Middle-clicking on a tab closes it.

My mousewheel also has a horizontal scrolling function, but it's far too slow. Shift+scrolling scrolls a page horizontally. Also, Ctrl+scrolling zooms a page in or out. All these are for Chrome (more here) but most should work in IE and Firefox as well.

Then outside the browser, we have, of course, alt+tab, doing the same as windows+tab but without the fancy. Ctrl+shift changes the keyboard layout to another language. Useful for Europeans when you find your accents aigu have turned into accents grave. Ctrl+shift+tab opens Task Manager. Windows+D shows the desktop. Ctrl+F searches your words.

What else do we have?

Omega Entity:
I use Ctrl + C (copy) and Ctrl + V (paste) like nobody's business. I use graphics progs a lot, but it's also really helpful in a bunch of other places, too.

snalin:
There's a lot of new ones in win7 that I find very useful, in addition to some that has been around for a while:

Win+arrow keys* moves the active window around. Try it! Win+up maximizes, win+left and right moves the window to the left and the right, and win+down restores it down (makes it smaller) if the window is maximized, and minimizes it if not.

LTK mentioned win+d for desktop. Win+l locks the screen, which is really practical if you need to leave your computer somewhere public (library, work, etc.).

Pressing and releasing win opens up the start menu as it always has(okay, at least for as long as I have been using a computer). In win7, you can start typing right after doing this, and what you type goes into the search bar. This is very useful! If I want to start chrome now, I pres win, type 'ch', and press enter, and windows starts the program, without me ever having to navigate any menu whatsoever.

f2 allows you to rename a file or folder! Just select it in the windows GUI, and press f2, type in the new name, and press enter when done.

There's also a couple of useful keyboard shorcuts in all of the modern internet browsers that's pretty damn cool:
ctrl+l moves the cursor to the menu bar, and highlights all of it. alt+d does the same!
crtl+t opens a new tab.
ctrl+tab cycles through your open tabs, just like alt+tab does for open programs. ctrl+shift+tab does the same, just backwards instead of forewards.

for chrome specifically:
ctrl+j opens the downloads screen.
ctrl+w closes the open tab.

EDIT:
I remembered more about windows and browsers!
in the windows folder view, alt+up brings you one level up in the folder hierarchy.
in a web browser, alt+left and right goes backwards and forwards in your history. Very useful if you are trying to go back, but backspace won't work since you are in a textfield.
/EDIT

Using keyboard shortcuts makes you a lot less prone to wrist problems due to mouse use. You should do it! It's also effective to learn and use the shortcuts that's available for all of the text editors you meet - ms office, open office, even the QC forums posting thingy! Try it now! With practice, you'll do things better and faster. Ctrl+left and right moves you to the start or end of the word your cursor** is at! ctrl+backspace and delete removes a whole word instead of just a letter! ctrl+up and down does different things, either it moves the cursor to the start or end of the current paragraph, or it scrolls the screen without moving the cursor. Depends on the program.

*for you less savvy out there, with Win I mean the button between the left ctrl and the left alt, with the windows symbol on it. If you have an keyboard made for hippies or hipsters, it will be labeled something else.
** uh, the thingy that indicates where you are writing. It has a fancy word that I can't come up with. Not the mouse cursor.

The more I learn programming, the more I realize how important shortcuts are. Whenever I find myself doing something with the mouse a lot, I google for a keyboard shortcut. It's usually around, programmers love them, and after all, it's programmers that makes the programs with the keyboard shortcuts in the first place.

EDITEDIT: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Table_of_keyboard_shortcuts

Scandanavian War Machine:
Windows button + m
minimizes all windows


that's all. i think you guys covered all the other important ones i use.

Omega Entity:
Couple other neat Win7 functions that involve the mouse - click and hold the top bar on a window and give it a shake, and it'll minimize all the other windows except the one you're clicking on. You can also snap windows to either side of the screen, for easy side-by-side viewing. Hovering the pointer over the sliver of the taskbar on the far right turns all your windows invisible to see the desktop, and giving it a click will minimize them all. Repeating the actions will bring everything back up again, with the exception of the snapping to the side thing. Just drag the window away from the edge to fix that.

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