Windows: Keyboard shortcut to view calendar

Windows 11

Win+n

Windows 10 (as of Anniversary Update)

New in Windows 10 Anniversary Update:

Win+Alt+d

This will pop-open the calendar and pressing it again will close it.

For a full list of windows shortcuts go here.

Keyboad shortcut

You can display the calendar with a combination of three keyboard shortcuts:

Win+B, Arrow right, Enter

Explanation

• Win+B selects the Windows system tray
• Arrow right selects the calendar
• Enter opens the calendar

Screenshot

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Write this AutoHotKey script:

!d:: send #t{tab}{tab}{left}{enter}

Now Alt+D will open the date/clock window.

If you don't know what Autohotkey is, just google it, download it, open a notepad document, insert the script line and save the file. rename it as filename.ahk. The file logo will become a green H. Double-click it. The logo will appear in the right hand task bar icons, and the script should work. To change the hotkey, exchange ! for #, ^, or + for Win, Ctrl, or Shift, respectively (or keep ! for Alt). And change the letter if you want. Or learn about AHK and do anything you like:)

You can bring up the "Date and Time" window, which comes up when you click on the "Change date and time settings...", with a shortcut key by doing the following:

1. On the desktop (or any folder) right-click an empty location and click "New", then "Shortcut".

2. For the location type timedate.cpl. Click "Next", enter any name you prefer. Then click "Finish".

3. Now right-click the new shortcut and select "Properties". In the "Shortcut key:" text box type any key you would like for the shortcut.

Source

I could not find any direct way to do this. Instead, I added the Calendar gadget in Windows 7 and created a AutoHotKey script to show or hide Gadgets (and thus Calendar) whenever needed when a keyboard shortcut (Win+G) was pressed. The AHK script to do this can be found here and more details on it here.