{"id":928,"date":"2013-05-24T15:36:26","date_gmt":"2013-05-24T22:36:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jim-zimmerman.com\/?p=928"},"modified":"2013-06-26T13:35:45","modified_gmt":"2013-06-26T20:35:45","slug":"windows-and-rdp-key-mappings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jim-zimmerman.com\/?p=928","title":{"rendered":"Windows and RDP key mappings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Windows key has become much more important now that Windows 8 has been released.  For someone who primarily uses Windows via RDP, it can make things a bit more difficult if you don&#8217;t know the some key combinations.  I have listed a few that I commonly use below.<\/p>\n<p>Windows Key:  Alt-Home<\/p>\n<p>Ctrl-Alt-Del:  Ctrl-Alt-End<\/p>\n<p>Alt-Tab:  Alt+Page Up<\/p>\n<p>Another interesting thing I found that has annoyed me in Windows 8 when using RDP is how to close metro applications.  You can do this using a mouse.  When in the metro application, move the mouse to the very top of the screen until the mouse pointer turns into a hand.  Then, click and pull the window down to the bottom of the screen.  This definitely beats what I was going before.  I using Task Manager to kill the application.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Windows key has become much more important now that Windows 8 has been released. For someone who primarily uses Windows via RDP, it can make things a bit more difficult if you don&#8217;t know the some key combinations. I have listed a few that I commonly use below. Windows Key: Alt-Home Ctrl-Alt-Del: Ctrl-Alt-End Alt-Tab: [&#038;hellip<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[327,326,36,328],"class_list":["post-928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-documentation","tag-key-mapping","tag-rdp","tag-windows","tag-windows-8"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jim-zimmerman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/928","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jim-zimmerman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jim-zimmerman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jim-zimmerman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jim-zimmerman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=928"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/jim-zimmerman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/928\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":936,"href":"https:\/\/jim-zimmerman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/928\/revisions\/936"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jim-zimmerman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jim-zimmerman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jim-zimmerman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}