On Tue, 16 Oct 2012 21:28:40 -0400, Nil wrote:

On 16 Oct 2012, Paul wrote in
alt.comp.os.windows-8:

Simple. Plug in a second keyboard. Leave it off
to the side of your normal sitting position. If
you need obscure keys, reach for the other keyboard.

If you only have to generate those sequences
infrequently, it wouldn't be a big deal.

If you could see my desk, you'd know there wasn't room for another
keyboard.

Maybe I'll hire a servant to hold it quietly in the corner and press it
on my command. Or a trained monkey, if it can be taught to poop in a
box and not the floor. Or maybe this is a good reason to finally have
some children. Thanks, Microsoft for helping me to continue my
bloodline!

Is there any other alternative? Something that would let me use a key
combination to mimic the Windows key, or remap a little-used one such
as "Scroll Lock"?

The trick is to find a way to mimic pressing a second key while holding
the Windows key down.

I'm not sure that the suggestions by Paul and ...winston would do that.

OK- here's what I did just now using Nil's idea - with the mouse I
clicked and held the on-screen Windows key, then pressed e on the
physical keyboard. It worked just like the real thing.

Cool.

I didn't try ...winston's idea, but it's surely worth a look.


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Gene E. Bloch (Stumbling Bloch)