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This method uses a Windows port of the U.S. Extended (ABC Extended) keyboard layout described in the macOS section of this article. Download the Windows port of the U.S. Extended keyboard layout . Unzip us-ext.zip and run setup.exe. After the installation the new keyboard layout should be available in the input menu.
Some early PC keyboards had a single key located on the lowest row of keys, either to the left of the Z key or to the right of the right control key. Sometimes it was treated as a backslash, but its behavior varied. It generated a special scan code so that a program could associate unique behavior to it.
I'm using the standard US International keyboard with dead keys, on which AltGr-Shift-3 or AltGr-# is a dead key for the macron; i.e. right Alt key + shift + 3/#, release, then type the vowel you want a macron over. --Jim Henry 22:49, 17 August 2009 (UTC) Doesn't work for me (Windows XP SP3) --Zom-B 06:23, 6 March 2012 (UTC)
On IBM PC compatible personal computers from the 1980s, the BIOS allowed the user to hold down the Alt key and type a decimal number on the keypad. It would place the corresponding code into the keyboard buffer so that it would look (almost) as if the code had been entered by a single keystroke.
COMMAND. ACTION. CTRL + End. Scroll to the bottom. CTRL + Home. Scroll to the top. CTRL + A. Select all of the text in the line you’re on. Page Down. Move the cursor down a page
Place computer into sleep/standby mode Windows 10: ⊞ Win+x > u > s. Windows 7: ⊞ Win+→+→+↵ Enter. Sleep (available on some keyboards) ⌥ Opt+⌘ Cmd+Eject: Sleep (available on some keyboards, configurable in Control Panel Power Options Advanced tab dialog box) Shut down computer Windows 10: ⊞ Win+x > u > u: Ctrl+⌥ Opt+⌘ Cmd+Eject
This page lists codes for keyboard characters, the computer code values for common characters, such as the Unicode or HTML entity codes (see below: Table of HTML values"). There are also key chord combinations, such as keying an en dash ('–') by holding ALT+0150 on the numeric keypad of MS Windows computers.
In computing, a keyboard shortcut (also hotkey/hot key or key binding) [1] is a software-based assignment of an action to one or more keys on a computer keyboard. Most operating systems and applications come with a default set of keyboard shortcuts , some of which may be modified by the user in the settings .