Shortcut tip: Ctrl + shift + Esc and Ctrl + alt + end

I recently learnt a new shortcut to get to the task manager: Ctrl + shift + Esc. It's especially useful on Vista and Windows Server 2008. On these OSs, ctrl+alt+del maps to another screen where you can select the task manager. One screen lesser to get to the task manager is totally awesome!

Also, my colleague loved another shortcut key combination (ctrl + alt + end) that I have been using for a while. Ctrl + alt + end shows the task manager on the remote machine when using Remote Desktop.

I'm just putting it out there - in case, someone will find this useful!

(I have to admit that I was inspired to blog about this by Sara Ford's amazing VS tip of the day series (she's at #193 right now) . She'd recently shared her blogging experiences with some of us and how people love shortcuts!)

Comments

• Anonymous
  April 14, 2008
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• Anonymous
  May 05, 2008
  Thanks for this. I knew there was a shortcut to the task manager but usually I just punched this keys by mistake :)

• Anonymous
  June 08, 2008
  Thanks to people like you and Sara who share .. otherwise its hard to know such cool features.

• Anonymous
  March 24, 2009
  I stumble on a problem under Windows Vista while running MS 2003 Excel, VBScript. The problem only seen when using VBscript "Sendkeys" function. For example: I use VBScript to send the key combination "CTRL+SHIFT+END" to select the the whole Excel page, it only recognized CTRL+END and ignore the SHIFT key altogether. If perform these keys combination manually it work OK. Have any one seen this problem before?