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InvisibleDieCommie


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Short Cut Keys!
    #8094661 - 03/02/08 06:29 PM (16 years, 2 months ago)

There is something awesome about learning a shortcut key to something you didnt know before. I love using shortcut keys.

Now for as long as I have been using XP, when I right click on an icon and see a shortcut tab. In that tab there is a spot that says "Shortcut Key: NONE". I click in the box and press a button, 'M' for example, and then it says "Shortcut Key: Ctrl + Alt + M". Yet when I press ctrl+alt+M I get nothing.

I have tried this for years, every time I do a fresh install basically I try to set shortcut keys on my icons. I can never do it. I just did a fresh install of XP Pro on my laptop, tried to set a shortcut key and got nothing.


Has anybody here been able to set these? How the hell do you do it?

Thx

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Re: Short Cut Keys! [Re: DieCommie]
    #8095354 - 03/02/08 09:27 PM (16 years, 2 months ago)

I just noticed that it doesn't work if you don't hit "Apply" instead of "Ok"

Hit Apply! Works for me.


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Re: Short Cut Keys! [Re: ProoN]
    #8099217 - 03/03/08 07:28 PM (16 years, 2 months ago)

ahhh, no good.  I just cant get it to work, im cursed.

I had fellow majors look at it today, smart guys, none of them could figure it out.  Guess I have to use the mouse.:rolleyes:

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Re: Short Cut Keys! [Re: DieCommie]
    #8099345 - 03/03/08 08:02 PM (16 years, 2 months ago)

I have never tried to use them, but I'm having the same problem as you.  :confused:


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Re: Short Cut Keys! [Re: DieCommie]
    #8099363 - 03/03/08 08:07 PM (16 years, 2 months ago)

Figured it out. Ok, someone else figured it out but I figured out how to use Google.

Quote:

Don't know exactly what you did, but creating a shortcut within the
Office folder, or dragging/sending a shortcut from this folder to the
desktop with or without an assigned shortcut key combination won't
work. As Microsoft notes:
"Shortcut keys work only for shortcuts on the desktop or in the Start
menu hierarchy".

Maybe you did it right, but try the routine of creating a shortcut
directly on the desktop. Right-click on the desktop and click on New
=> Shortcut. Complete the wizard and when the shortcut is created,
right-click on it and click Properties. Type T in the Shortcut Key
box. Try it now.




This worked perfectly.


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Re: Short Cut Keys! [Re: HagbardCeline]
    #8099407 - 03/03/08 08:17 PM (16 years, 2 months ago)

I like the built in shortcut keys


start button + e = windows explorer
start button + d = show desktop
start button + l = lock screen


and there are more I think

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Re: Short Cut Keys! [Re: DieCommie]
    #8099429 - 03/03/08 08:26 PM (16 years, 2 months ago)

Also, I stumbled across this if that doesn't work for you. It's a simple program that runs in the system tray. You have to configure it accordingly, of course, but it's small (only 36kb). It'd be nice if there was a built-in option to run it as a service.. though, you could make it start up automatically with some registry modifications if need be.


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