Windows 7 Superbar Tip
Gnomie g-dawg from our chat room writes:
I read this tip from the “Engineering Windows 7″ article published by Microsoft about the time build 7064 was out. It says that there’s a new shortcut that will attempt to “alienate” mice.
In the quick launch part of the superbar, you can push the Windows key + the number that corresponds with the program’s placement on the superbar. So, if IE 8 was in slot 1, you’d just push the Windows key + 1. If there are multiple windows open in IE 8, you can repeatedly push the Windows key + 1 and cycle through IE 8’s windows and only IE 8 windows. It’s like the alt + tab functionality, but way better.
It’d be great if you made a video on this.
- Java Programming for a Beginner, 5-disk DVD Complete Training Suite. Edition 2009
- Piano For Dummies
- Perl Programming for a Beginner, 5-disk DVD Complete Training Suite. Edition 2009
- Windows 7 For Dummies Book + DVD bundle
- Windows 7 All-in-One For Dummies
- Windows 7 For Dummies

2 Comments
Rick Castellini
May 13th, 2009
at 10:39am
I will volunteer to put up a video tip on this technique later today. Looks like a potential great keyboard shortcut…although will take some retraining of years of Alt+Tab
Rick
May 14th, 2009
at 10:22am
As promised, I put together a short video demoing this tip:
http://helpmerick.com/keyboard-shortcut-to-launch-applications-in-windows-7.htm