Vista: Quick Launch Hot Keys
Contributed by Hack_Vista 
October 9, 2006 
Tagged: Microsoft Vista
One of the nice new features in Vista is that every shortcut placed into the Quick Launch toolbar is assigned a win-key hot key. Here is a screenshot and directions on how to use this new feature.
The quick launch toolbar is one of the most popular features in XP. The quickness of the quick launch toolbar has now been increased in vista.
Now the windows OS will assign a win-key hot key (or keyboard shortcut) to every shortcut in the Quick Launch.
For example, to launch the first shortcut in the vista quick launch toolbar, the user just needs to hit win-key+1. To launch the second shortcut, the user hits win-key+2.
Explaining my screenshot, obviously, the win-key alone opens the Start menu. Win-key+1 on my system executes the “Show Desktop” shortcut. Win-key+2 excutes IE7.
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