Two ways to access emojis in Windows 10

Include an emoji via keyboard shortcut while typing in Windows 10 by using the Windows key together with the period key. Windows key + semicolon is also a valid shortcut.

No keyboard handy? In the right-hand part of the taskbar, there is a small keyboard icon. If that is not visible, you can enable it by right-clicking on the taskbar.

Clicking this taskbar icon enables the touch keyboard, which includes a smiley key that takes you to to the emoji list.