Hot key to open finder?

Is there a command key to open finder?
I leave my dock hidden and I was wondering if there was a command that i could hit really quick to get to finder menu so i can get to my movie, docs, apps, etc.

I want to open the finder window.
I pressed f11 and then clicked on the desktop and it selected finder in the menu but it open the finder window.
alt tab only seems to work if you have a finder window open but it is closed then you only select finder (in the menu)
The best I have found so far is alt tab, expose, etc to select finder then press command N

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Barry,
You are under yet another misconception if you think I have been commenting on your workflow. I have not, and will not.
From the beginning, I have been focusing on a single issue: what single-key stroke may affect the Open button in the ACR dialog box. The answer was (and remains) that there is no single-key stroke that will open the image in Photoshop if you're having Bridge host ACR. Command+O will open the image on the Mac, or Ctrl+O on Windows.
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still have Photoshop host ACR.
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Is there a way to view just one open Finder window (without any other Finder or other application windows coming into view) from a Desktop hot corner in Yosemite?

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Sed_P wrote:
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You can't. You need an application launcher for those tasks.
I also don't want to use an app launcher because the additional engine it uses just clogs up my resources and increases my start-up time by about a minute....
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I don't understand what you mean, 'reverse it to nothing'.
Progress. I opened the Msoft driver panel in Sys Prefs and noticed that the text next to the Wheel Button setting changed right before my eyes, so quickly that I couldn't see what it had been set to, only that it changed back to being set to Option-Click. After that happened, I checked Lightwave, and the functionality of the scroll wheel button had returned. No more appearances of the active programs strip. In time I'll find out if this is going to continue, but if it does I'll hopefully be able to reset it to functionality by simply opening and closing the Msoft mouse driver panel. BTW, this effect doesn't only happen with LW, Google Maps is affected too. Normally, cicking and holding the scroll whell button enables me to drag the map around, but when the OS takes over (or whatever is affecting this), instead of dragging the window, the active progrms strip opens.
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[email protected]

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[email protected]

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