{"id":432,"date":"2020-11-03T17:11:55","date_gmt":"2020-11-03T17:11:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/t3x.co.uk\/?p=432"},"modified":"2020-11-03T17:12:51","modified_gmt":"2020-11-03T17:12:51","slug":"shift-click-on-taskbar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/t3x.co.uk\/?p=432","title":{"rendered":"Shift Click on TaskBar"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I was amazed to find out that not everyone knows about using shift click on items on the Windows taskbar. This has been around since Windows 7 and I find it most useful.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It works on the vast majority of Windows Applications.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"791\" height=\"46\" src=\"https:\/\/t3x.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/6.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-433\" srcset=\"https:\/\/t3x.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/6.png 791w, https:\/\/t3x.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/6-300x17.png 300w, https:\/\/t3x.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/6-768x45.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>We all know a single click on a TaskBar icon will open a window for the particular app, or at least I hope we do. However, what I find useful, and I think most techies will if they don&#8217;t already,  is when I have a window open, let&#8217;s say Explorer, and I then want to open another Explorer window with the default settings so that I can do another task then come back to the current window and carry on, I can just hold down Shift and click on the appropriate TaskBar icon. This is useful as I get interrupted quite a lot.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>  Here it is in Windows 7 <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/t3x.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/2-1024x768.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-434\" srcset=\"https:\/\/t3x.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/2-1024x768.png 1024w, https:\/\/t3x.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/2-300x225.png 300w, https:\/\/t3x.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/2-768x576.png 768w, https:\/\/t3x.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/2.png 1155w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Here I used it to open a fresh NotePad window in Windows 10.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"580\" src=\"https:\/\/t3x.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/7-1024x580.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-435\" srcset=\"https:\/\/t3x.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/7-1024x580.png 1024w, https:\/\/t3x.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/7-300x170.png 300w, https:\/\/t3x.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/7-768x435.png 768w, https:\/\/t3x.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/7.png 1360w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was amazed to find out that not everyone knows about using shift click on items on the Windows taskbar. 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