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Windows 8 Five Minutes at a Time
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Windows 8 Five Minutes at a Time

by Lance Whitney
November 2012
Beginner
384 pages
14h 58m
English
Wiley
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Mouse Movements

Windows 8 offers certain hidden methods to display key features, such as the Charms bar and the Switch List bar. You can trigger these features by moving your mouse to various hot corners around the screen. This section lists the mouse movements that you can use to launch these features.

Table B.1 details mouse movements to launch certain Windows 8 features.

Table B.1 Mouse Movements

Shortcut

Description

Move to the bottom-left hot corner

Display shortcut to Start screen or previous app

Move to the top- or bottom-right hot corner

Display the Charms bar

Move to the upper-left hot corner

Display shortcut to next active application

Move to the upper-left hot corner and move down

Display the Switch List bar with shortcuts to all open apps

Move to the bottom-left hot corner and right-click mouse

Open the Power User Tasks menu

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