Windows key + AĮditor’s note: This article originally published November 21, 2021, but was updated to embed a YouTube video showing our 8 favorite Windows 11 keyboard shortcuts. Quick actions are all on their own, while notifications get their own separate overlay that’s paired with the calendar overlay. The information once centralized in Windows 10’s Action Center is now chopped up and split into different overlays in Windows 11. Microsoft retooled Windows’s interface for its newest version-and as a result, the keyboard commands to access certain elements have changed, too. Method 2: In Task Manager, you can close all open windows for the app at once. Close all windows by clicking/tapping on it. Keyboard shortcuts tied to Windows 11’s interface overhaul If you wish to close all open windows for a particular app, simply right-click or press and hold on the app’s taskbar icon. Interested in seeing all the keyboard shortcuts available in Windows 11? Check out the full list on Microsoft’s support site.

Screen colors will toggle between default and which ever color filter you’ve selected, e.g, grayscale or blue-yellow. Turn on color filter (must enable this shortcut Color Filter settings first).

One note for Windows 10 keyboard shortcut veterans: A couple of these use the same keystrokes as Windows 10 but with a different result-we’ve marked these with an asterisk.

Key to close all windows