Every time you copy something new, the old thing vanishes into the void. Gone. Poof. Like your motivation on a Monday morning. Windows has been watching you suffer in silence for years — and the whole time, it had the fix.

This opens your clipboard history — a magical drawer that remembers everything you’ve copied: text, images, that random emoji you found once. It’s all there, quietly waiting for you to stop being a caveman.

⚠️ First time? You need to enable it: Settings → System → Clipboard → Toggle “Clipboard history” on. Do it now. We’ll wait.

If you only learn one shortcut from this entire article, tattoo this one on the inside of your eyelids. It’s the granddaddy of productivity — so simple, so elegant, so blindingly obvious that admitting you didn’t know it should come with a support group.

Hold Alt. Tap Tab. Watch your open applications parade across the screen like contestants on Love Island. Release when you find the one you fancy. It’s that simple.

Every office worker needs a panic button. This is yours. It minimises every single window instantly — like pulling the blanket over your head, except it actually works. Press it again and everything pops back exactly where it was. Digital witness protection.

If you’ve been hitting Print Screen, opening Paint, pasting, cropping, and saving like some kind of digital archaeologist — stop. There’s a better way and it’s been staring at you from the keyboard.

This opens the Snipping Tool overlay. Your screen dims. Drag a box around whatever you want — an error message, a chart, a suspicious tweet. It copies straight to clipboard. Paste anywhere. No Paint involved.

This makes you look like you know what you’re doing even when you categorically do not. Pin your most-used apps to the taskbar. Win+1 opens the first, Win+2 the second. With muscle memory, it’s essentially witchcraft.