Desktop shortcut needed

Right click on the bottom right hand corner of your screen where the time appears. A window will pop up. One of the options is "show the desktop". Click on that and you are home free.

i did not aware that i could access my Desktop from there, but what i need is keyboard shortcut. I just dont like to get my hands off the keyboard once i start typing. i love shortcuts very much because it helps us to do job faster.

Perhaps my first experience on Wordstar which was very popular back in late 90s had taught me to use shortcuts. At that time Wordstar was still under DOS and running under 8088 CPU and monochrome monitor (becoming dinasour nowadays) and funny thing is there was no mouse attached. Every action must through shortcuts.

And believe me some people could not operate the computer without mouse nowadays. Master both methods and we will survive and becoming more productive no matter the mouse working or malfunction or eaten by cat

If no default shortcut how to create one?

Many of my retired work friends and family follow my pc basics blog and your shortcut was definetly appreciated and used along with the below email message to refresh their memory on the topic of DOS Global Commands. Here it is in its entirety. Great Link guys!

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I'm constantly communicating with engineering types on the www.CR4.com special interest website; and they have some great knowledge just itching to have an audience to share it with. Sometimes I actually have something to contribute such as the bottom paragraph, below. . Today - a question about "Keystroke Shortcuts" was in one of the threads. (I call them Global Commands from back in the DOS days. Nowadays the Disk Operation System is overlaid by "Windows" and Drop-Down and Pop-up menus which overlay DOS.). Below is the link that I mined from that thread - It's a terrific data base of "global commands" for those who are tired of carpel tunnel syndrome from over using their mouse.

Just a reminder for those who don't know or have forgotten. When one clicks on a task bar one gets a drop down menu of Commands. Many have arcane Control key combinations (which don't work when one presses those key combinatons - But DO work if one merely presses an indicated underlined letter in a command in the menu; that is because the original purpose of those drop down menus were on the fly cheat sheets. One is supposed to look up global commands; find the pesky little dude one wants to memorize and USE. Then click off the menu to close it and then key in the proper global command.). I.E., if one wants to Print a document they find that if they press a Control Key and the P key a print options Pop-up menu opens.

I don't want to repeat and repeat here, most of y'all already know this stuff - this and all of the 17 basic skills of computing are aready online at http://www.pc-basics.blogspot.com/ for anyone to review.

The problem is <and comes back every generation> that somehow the simple key intensive skills never gets learned or used and we find ourselves opening drop down menus and outside mouse button clicking to bring up Pop-up Menus; find the command we want, move the cursor over it and click on it... We've forgotten that these are reminders first and foremost.

<The goiod news is> Inputing global commands directly will actually and eventually end carpel tunnel syndrome, just for the record, if our keyboard is also slanted down and away from our wrists enough and if we use these key commands instead of the mouse to shortcut on the order of 100 global commands that DOS recognizes without the mouse at all. Most of these commands will work in Vista as well, just for the record. Check 'em out. . http://www.ccvschools.com/keystrokes.htm

this is what i have been looking for. Thank you very much

I am confused. Doesn't the desktop show up, after the boot up or login?

Yes, but it disappears when you are working with another program. At present, I cannot see the desktop because the screen is filled with your question and my response. If I want to see it for some reason, I can simply press the key combination given in the chart referred to by bwire or right click the mouse in the bottom right of the screen.

Wouldn't it be easier to keep the task bar on top and minimize the program you are working on. Down and click.

I guess I'm just a pc and mouse person, but I do use ctrl-v to paste.

Zmun,

First right click on the desktop. Then click new and add shortcut. Click browse and select desktop. Then click continue and desktop icon will appear on the desktop. Then you can drag the icon just to the right of the start button so when ever you want to go to the desktop click on the icon now to the right of the start button. Make sure you have quick launch selected by right clicking on the task bar select tool bars and you will see quick launch. I would do this first the desktop may appear with out adding it.

ChazL

In fact it's a toggle...switch to and from twist desktop and window.

This is a happy tour for me to learn so much helpful information on your post. Thanks.

R click on taskbar at bottom of page. Left click on "show desktop" or "minimize all" to get to desktop in 2 clicks. I am assuming you are talking about having several files/programs running.

Fibbrmagee

Press "Windows key logo+E" simultaneously, this will display windows explorer.

Windows button + D

But i didnt get.. why u use always desktop... U can also go for shortcuts of your folders on Desktop, so that from there you can keep them directly. :)

Yeppers Mr. Guest,

In fact, it's a waste of valuable RAM to have any file or application on (in) the Desktop since it cannot be minimized unless one goes into DOS command prompt mode and who needs to, really? Rather, the Desktop should be populated with shortcut's with customized Icon Artwork to differentiate them visually.

My "Desktop" (folder) has no more shortcuts than can circle a rather large monitor screen. It has no appreciable impact on the speed of my pc because the RAM is hardly impacted by shortcuts because they are handled as thumbnail images and not full blown documents or other objects in terminate and stay resident mode which uses huge amounts of RAM and CPU resouces. (Yep - I'm an old DOS head, where understanding these issues was key to crash-proofing ones' computer back in the days.).

In keeping with my personal rule for organizing my data and images, almost all are shortcuts to folders that are named for particular themes. Inside those folders I stay within the rule, "Never have more than a screenfull of titles" One makes folders for sub-themes if one surpasses one screenful. I.E., My Docs, Excel, Games, Pictures, Word(s), etc., etc... Having said that, Never have more than one screenful of Folders and shortcuts, etc...

Hmmm,

I found that adding the Windows Key + D to minimize all open Windows and access the desktop to be the latest, most useful key combination to know (re-re-remember) on this thread. However, after reflection, I though that rather than creating a shortcut and placing it next to the Start Icon one should remember that the Shortcut TOO the desktop is already right next to the Start Icon in the form of a monitor screen icon. It's a dead ringer, in miniature, for ones' current desktop, too.

I had forgotten that factoid during the course of discourse on this thread because, by and large I think that one should open windows somewhat smaller than full screen. One is encouraged to do this for two primary ease of use reasons; albeit, others who are clever may have several more reasons that they could share.

Less than full-sized Windows allows one to access the shortcuts that surround the Desktop on my pc; which are most certainly very heavily utilized every day. Those shortcuts give instant access to all the active contact info, phone dialer database, tabbed Excel worksheet link databases and .xls and generic .csv form hard-copy masters, emailer, images, Netflix Movies, CR4 log-ins and other user group log-ins, Facebook and Family Heritage project updates, bill paying web links, appointment calendars, reminder input boxes, presentations, elected constituent links, co-project persons, VOIP and Video Phone widgets, music play-lists, RSS news feeds, drafting images and project drawings and imagery, Sun Open Source file readers, web page editor(s), news reporters, etc that one uses as resources and/or reviews almost daily... whew.

In fact there is a second set of shortcuts, surrounding the Desktop extension on the TV connected via HDMI cable from the duel output graphics card in this PC. Those are what one uses to view stocks and futures one has a position or interest in under the gadgets that Vista supplied and PC resource meter gadgets, etc. as well as less used but needed instant shortcuts to stuff like online speed chess. (The large accelerated gamer's co-processors on the graphics card take the brute force load off the PC CPU, in the bargain, hopefully so it won't fry, an early death from being flogged so hard by a power user. The gamer card makes using the second screen fast and apparently effortless. But the heat build up in my office rats this illusion out. ... only retired HVAC-R types would notice that.)... Umm, oh, and (gosh) it also helps me keep up online with Far Cry 2 or Call of Duty 4 gamers so there's no lag time to hide behind when my butt is getting kicked on a bad hair day.

Anyway: The secondary viewing screen/monitor is a shortcut resource for when they are needed if not keeping one eye on the latest video documentary or movie I'm reviewing or slide show of my family heritage pictures project on that one. And that is another reason to keep windows from being full sized; once opened on the primary monitor, they are easy to slide off the primary monitor and onto the second TV/Monitor without having to resize or adust them smaller on that lower resolution viewing resouce. Again - these are NOT programs or files moved over on this secondary screen! They are shortcuts only. However, if you don't think in parallel streams, (as revealed by teachers promoting their Shift Happens students below.) ignore this comment and do things one at a time because that's what works for you. With practice one can learn to think about or do one thing while listening to another, and build on that to three streams of awareness, etc. I'm up to about 10 depending on how energetic one is at the time and working toward a goal of 20 like some of the Mensus Geniuses say is natural to them. It's not a hard target, just a fanciful desire.

Oh? charsley99 And by the bye? Yes, you are encouraged to unlock your task bar, drag it open to at least two rows high (or wide) and then re-lock it so that you can actually read all of the multi-task open titles of the multi-content one may have open all at once. Shortcuts can speed up opening your data and projects of interest, a lot. It can also get you into RAM Cram very fast! (Get a fast Quade PC with lots of RAM and a high end multi-co-processer Gamers video card with lots of RAM; a second, High Definition TV at least 32" diagonal or a fast LCD Monitor at or above 22" diagonal (they're priced about the same just now if you know where to buy) if you use shortcuts frequently, is my recommendation.).
Tinker65

As zmun says, most programmes default to 'My Documents' when you first save something. I get over this by having shortcuts to my various save locations in the 'My Documents' folder, then it's only one more click to get to the preferred location.

Good answer Nigh,

The other reason that putting ALL of the fruits of one's labor into My Doc's is that it becomes a no brainer to target that one folder for back up. My pix, My Audio, and My Video were moved into that puppy the first time it was Fired it up. EVERYTHING one saves is easily backed up from My Documents as a result. It certainly makes searching a lot easier, too, because the Search A.I. Engine knows this factoid, as well.