I was playing around with Windows 8.1 on my computer and I figured out there are some cool shortcuts maybe you haven’t known.

Did you know that the icons in your task bar starting after the start button on the left bottom corner of your screen are numbered from 1 - 9.

Windows key
+ 1 - opens the application or whatever your 1st icon after the start menu
Windows key
+ 2 & and so on. Does the same.
Windows key
+ ShiftKey +

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-  opens up another instance of whatever that icon points to.
Now if that is not clear, I hope the following image kind of helps understand that.

The Windows taskbar with arrows showing that pinned apps are numbered 1, 2 and 3 from the left: Windows Explorer, Mozilla Firefox and VLC Media Player

More coming around soon.