LAUNCHES TASKBAR PROGRAMMS WITH YOUR KEYBOARD
Launch taskbar programs with your keyboard
Many of us—especially
users of the Start Menu-less Windows 8—use the Windows taskbar as a
quick launch bar, populating it with our day-to-day programs. Opening
those programs is as simple as clicking them, but there's actually a
faster way to launch software on your taskbar: Simple keyboard
combinations.
Every program to the right of the Start button is assigned its own numerical shortcut, with the first program being "1," the second being "2," and so on, all the way to the 10th taskbar shortcut, which gets "0." Pressing the Windows key, plus the number of the program you want to open, launches it. For example, in the image at left, pressing Win + 3 launches the Chrome browser.
Every program to the right of the Start button is assigned its own numerical shortcut, with the first program being "1," the second being "2," and so on, all the way to the 10th taskbar shortcut, which gets "0." Pressing the Windows key, plus the number of the program you want to open, launches it. For example, in the image at left, pressing Win + 3 launches the Chrome browser.
