Irfanview wiped out Windows background

In alt.comp.os.windows-10, on Mon, 3 Dec 2018 14:28:34 -0500, Wolf K
wrote:

On 2018-12-03 11:01, Mayayana wrote:
"Wolf K" wrote

|
| How can Windows 10 stop Irfanview from changing the
"TranscodedWallpaper"
| file when control+shift+x is pressed?
|
| You can't. It's in the program, not the OS.

I never thought I'd see the day that something
couldn't be done in IV. It has loads of "skin"
options but no option to change hotkeys! Hacking
a resource shouldn't be necessary.

IV is Irfanview? I've only used it a little bit and didn't know it did
things like that too.

Other posters have claimed or implied that Hotkey and similar utilities
allow remapping of keys such that IV's assignments can be whatever you
want. I've never tried that.

I havent' tried these with IV but I'm pretty sure they override
everything, unless an exception is made within them.

https://www.autohotkey.com/ is the free one. It has a forum, but I
don't think I asked them to solve my problem, and it has samples, much
more than 2 or 3 years ago when last I looked,
https://autohotkey.com/docs/scripts/
It was easy enough to make it replace keys. Having an exception for only
one program might have been fairly easy but I wanted exceptions for 2
programs. Confused my ands and ors, or the documentation wasn't clear.
Yeah, let's blame that.

https://atnsoft.com/keyremapper/ is the paid one. Really easy to use,
even for multiple exceptions. You can even swap keys, which normally
has logical problems (I don't know if Autohotkey can do it.)
I think they've changed the payment rules. There used to be 30 free
trial days iirc. Now:

Get a license for free!
We'll be happy to send you a license or even a few ones in exchange for
an interesting article, blog post, YouTube video or any other item
promoting ATNSOFT products!

Quantity Price/License
Home License
1 computer $ 24.95

Business about 10 dollars more.

And then there is Key Manager that it says does even more than
KeyRemapper. I'll have to read and see what that might be. Maybe I need
it.

Also Voice Calculator and Text Paster.


There are probably other key remappers but these 2 are popular afaik.

On Mon, 03 Dec 2018 15:47:23 -0500, micky
https://www.autohotkey.com/ is the free one. It has a forum, but I
don't think I asked them to solve my problem, and it has samples, much
more than 2 or 3 years ago when last I looked,
https://autohotkey.com/docs/scripts/
It was easy enough to make it replace keys. Having an exception for only
one program might have been fairly easy but I wanted exceptions for 2
programs. Confused my ands and ors, or the documentation wasn't clear.
Yeah, let's blame that.


By the way, I basically use AutoHotkey for to three things:

1. Turning off what the Caps Lock and Insert keys do. Neither of them
are keys I want to use and both are keys I'm prone to hitting
accidentally.

2. Expanding abbreviations that I type. For example this message
started with "By the way," but I didn't type all those letters, just
Btw.

3. Inserting standard messages that I often repeat in newsgroups and
forums. For example if type "Windows11," I get all the following;
"Microsoft has stated that there will be no Windows 11. Windows 10 is
the last version of Windows. What they mean by this is that although
there will be newer versions, they will not have new version names;
they will still all be called Windows 10. So look , for example, at
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Window...ersion_history which lists
the versions of Windows 10 that have been released so far. But note
that's what Microsoft says today. Who knows what they will say
tomorrow? If they change their minds about this, it won't be the first
time they've changed their minds about something."

1 and 3 (especially 3) save me a lot of typing.

"Wolf K" wrote

|
| Other posters have claimed or implied that Hotkey and similar utilities
| allow remapping of keys such that IV's assignments can be whatever you
| want. I've never tried that.
|

Yes, Ralph Fox mentioned that. Hacking the
resource file. That's the first I've heard of it.
But sure enough, IV does have such a resource.
Apparently on Windows one can direct the system
to handle hotkeys, rather than doing it oneself,
through a text-based resource. And maybe that
can be hacked. It sounds a bit dubious to me.

But there's no reason a program can't be made to
handle its own hotkey events and then make those
configurable. The resource approach is just a lazy
way to do it.

In alt.comp.os.windows-10, on Mon, 03 Dec 2018 15:58:05 -0700, Ken Blake
wrote:

On Mon, 03 Dec 2018 15:47:23 -0500, micky
https://www.autohotkey.com/ is the free one. It has a forum, but I
don't think I asked them to solve my problem, and it has samples, much
more than 2 or 3 years ago when last I looked,
https://autohotkey.com/docs/scripts/
It was easy enough to make it replace keys. Having an exception for only
one program might have been fairly easy but I wanted exceptions for 2
programs. Confused my ands and ors, or the documentation wasn't clear.
Yeah, let's blame that.


By the way, I basically use AutoHotkey for to three things:

1. Turning off what the Caps Lock and Insert keys do. Neither of them
are keys I want to use and both are keys I'm prone to hitting
accidentally.

I forgot about that. Turning of the insert key was the primary reason I
got started on this, and it works so well (except once in agent) that I
forgot I was using it.

2. Expanding abbreviations that I type. For example this message
started with "By the way," but I didn't type all those letters, just
Btw.

A friend was a medical stenographer, transcribing dictation, with a foot
controlled tape recorder that would go backwards easily, and they had
software for her to use that had hundreds of these, but of course you
had to learn them. We had a fight so I don't know what happened.

3. Inserting standard messages that I often repeat in newsgroups and
forums. For example if type "Windows11," I get all the following;
"Microsoft has stated that there will be no Windows 11. Windows 10 is
the last version of Windows. What they mean by this is that although
there will be newer versions, they will not have new version names;
they will still all be called Windows 10. So look , for example, at
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Window...ersion_history which lists
the versions of Windows 10 that have been released so far. But note
that's what Microsoft says today. Who knows what they will say
tomorrow? If they change their minds about this, it won't be the first
time they've changed their minds about something."

Wow.

I was going to look at the list of samples and see if there was
something else I wanted.

1 and 3 (especially 3) save me a lot of typing.

I'll bet.

On Tue, 04 Dec 2018 02:01:23 -0500, micky
wrote:

In alt.comp.os.windows-10, on Mon, 03 Dec 2018 15:58:05 -0700, Ken Blake
wrote:

On Mon, 03 Dec 2018 15:47:23 -0500, micky
https://www.autohotkey.com/ is the free one. It has a forum, but I
don't think I asked them to solve my problem, and it has samples, much
more than 2 or 3 years ago when last I looked,
https://autohotkey.com/docs/scripts/
It was easy enough to make it replace keys. Having an exception for only
one program might have been fairly easy but I wanted exceptions for 2
programs. Confused my ands and ors, or the documentation wasn't clear.
Yeah, let's blame that.


By the way, I basically use AutoHotkey for to three things:

1. Turning off what the Caps Lock and Insert keys do. Neither of them
are keys I want to use and both are keys I'm prone to hitting
accidentally.

I forgot about that. Turning of the insert key was the primary reason I
got started on this, and it works so well (except once in agent) that I
forgot I was using it.

2. Expanding abbreviations that I type. For example this message
started with "By the way," but I didn't type all those letters, just
Btw.

A friend was a medical stenographer, transcribing dictation, with a foot
controlled tape recorder that would go backwards easily, and they had
software for her to use that had hundreds of these, but of course you
had to learn them. We had a fight so I don't know what happened.

3. Inserting standard messages that I often repeat in newsgroups and
forums. For example if type "Windows11," I get all the following;
"Microsoft has stated that there will be no Windows 11. Windows 10 is
the last version of Windows. What they mean by this is that although
there will be newer versions, they will not have new version names;
they will still all be called Windows 10. So look , for example, at
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Window...ersion_history which lists
the versions of Windows 10 that have been released so far. But note
that's what Microsoft says today. Who knows what they will say
tomorrow? If they change their minds about this, it won't be the first
time they've changed their minds about something."

Wow.

I was going to look at the list of samples and see if there was
something else I wanted.


Just in case I wasn't clear, let me add that all the things I do in
numbers 2 and 3 are things I created myself. If you see any of them in
samples, it will be a coincidence.

And if you use all the samples, you will likely have a hard rime
remembering them.

Speaking of remembering, let me add number 4 to my list: correcting my
common typos. There I *do* use what AutoHotkey came with, but I've
added several of my own common typos.


1 and 3 (especially 3) save me a lot of typing.

I'll bet.

In alt.comp.os.windows-10, on Tue, 04 Dec 2018 08:03:41 -0700, Ken Blake
wrote:

On Tue, 04 Dec 2018 02:01:23 -0500, micky
wrote:

In alt.comp.os.windows-10, on Mon, 03 Dec 2018 15:58:05 -0700, Ken Blake
wrote:

On Mon, 03 Dec 2018 15:47:23 -0500, micky
https://www.autohotkey.com/ is the free one. It has a forum, but I
don't think I asked them to solve my problem, and it has samples, much
more than 2 or 3 years ago when last I looked,
https://autohotkey.com/docs/scripts/
It was easy enough to make it replace keys. Having an exception for only
one program might have been fairly easy but I wanted exceptions for 2
programs. Confused my ands and ors, or the documentation wasn't clear.
Yeah, let's blame that.


By the way, I basically use AutoHotkey for to three things:

1. Turning off what the Caps Lock and Insert keys do. Neither of them
are keys I want to use and both are keys I'm prone to hitting
accidentally.

I forgot about that. Turning of the insert key was the primary reason I
got started on this, and it works so well (except once in agent) that I
forgot I was using it.

2. Expanding abbreviations that I type. For example this message
started with "By the way," but I didn't type all those letters, just
Btw.

A friend was a medical stenographer, transcribing dictation, with a foot
controlled tape recorder that would go backwards easily, and they had
software for her to use that had hundreds of these, but of course you
had to learn them. We had a fight so I don't know what happened.

3. Inserting standard messages that I often repeat in newsgroups and
forums. For example if type "Windows11," I get all the following;
"Microsoft has stated that there will be no Windows 11. Windows 10 is
the last version of Windows. What they mean by this is that although
there will be newer versions, they will not have new version names;
they will still all be called Windows 10. So look , for example, at
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Window...ersion_history which lists
the versions of Windows 10 that have been released so far. But note
that's what Microsoft says today. Who knows what they will say
tomorrow? If they change their minds about this, it won't be the first
time they've changed their minds about something."

Wow.

I was going to look at the list of samples and see if there was
something else I wanted.


Just in case I wasn't clear, let me add that all the things I do in
numbers 2 and 3 are things I created myself. If you see any of them in
samples, it will be a coincidence.

I didn't think you put anything in Samples. I just meant I could look
there for other ideas.

And if you use all the samples, you will likely have a hard rime
remembering them.

If I use one of them I'll have a hard time remembering it.

Speaking of remembering, let me add number 4 to my list: correcting my
common typos. There I *do* use what AutoHotkey came with, but I've
added several of my own common typos.

That might be useful.

1 and 3 (especially 3) save me a lot of typing.

I'll bet.