Disabling the new Win+Ctrl+C hotkey?

"Mr. Man-wai Chang" wrote:

On 24/1/2018 00:04, Terry Pinnell wrote:

https://www.google.com.hk/search?q=windows+disable+high+contrast+hotkey

As you saw from the screenshot in my last post:

1. The page you referenced must be old, as it's significantly different
to the current one

2. The hotkey is different. As I said in my opening post, it's now
Win+Ctrl+C.

3. The current Win 10 version no longer appears to offer that facility
(namely to toggle colour/grey) as an OPTION. It's now activated if you
use that hotkey (or enable it from that settings page).

Then you need to go registry hack, ASSUMED that there is a registry to
disable the high contrast function WITHOUT disabling Win+CTRL+C.

Maybe you should just chance the hot-key for your frequently pressed
function to keys other than "C".

That's what I've now done, as per a few of my earlier posts.
Win+Ctrl+F12.

Terry, East Grinstead, UK

On 24/1/2018 01:37, Terry Pinnell wrote:

That's what I've now done, as per a few of my earlier posts.
Win+Ctrl+F12.

If you could change that hot-key! Some programs might not offer that
choice, maybe just like that High Contrast function!

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On 24/1/2018 00:18, Terry Pinnell wrote:

See my earlier reply.
Terry, East Grinstead, UK

The whole Ease of Accessibility should have been an optional component
of Windows! I dunno why Micro$oft if not US Government make it a
compulsory install.

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On 24/1/2018 01:10, Rene Lamontagne wrote:

Yes it should have had a turn off switch, Like any other feature, its
kinda useless for most people anyway.

Well, the feature was there pay a tribute and respect to people with
disability problems! But who should respect normal people?

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Terry Pinnell wrote:

VanguardLH wrote:

(you didn't which one you are using).

Adding back what you snipped out that gave context to the word "one":

"... in your macro program (you didn't which one you are using)."
/
My bad: forgot the word "mention" ___/

I did.

I've gone through all your posts in all subthreads of this entire
thread, including your replies to those posters that I flag as ignored
and hide (e.g., Man-wai Chang posts off-topic drivel & spams in his sig,
gave up on the AIOE noise source which is a problem with any
non-registered free Usenet provider). Nowhere did YOU mention what
macro program you are using.

The parenthetical comment was regarding what macro program you have not
identified, not the key combination. Some macro programs can override
the system defined keys (and why they warn about NOT overriding
Ctrl+Alt+Del. Apparently your ancient macro program cannot override.

https://autohotkey.com/docs/misc/Override.htm

VanguardLH wrote:

Terry Pinnell wrote:

VanguardLH wrote:

(you didn't which one you are using).

Adding back what you snipped out that gave context to the word "one":

"... in your macro program (you didn't which one you are using)."
/
My bad: forgot the word "mention" ___/

I did.

I've gone through all your posts in all subthreads of this entire
thread, including your replies to those posters that I flag as ignored
and hide (e.g., Man-wai Chang posts off-topic drivel & spams in his sig,
gave up on the AIOE noise source which is a problem with any
non-registered free Usenet provider). Nowhere did YOU mention what
macro program you are using.



The parenthetical comment was regarding what macro program you have not
identified, not the key combination.

Sorry, I thought you meant the hotkey. The program is Macro Express Pro,
as mentioned several times in this newsgroup (the last in discussion
with you 12th December).

Some macro programs can override
the system defined keys (and why they warn about NOT overriding
Ctrl+Alt+Del. Apparently your ancient macro program cannot override.

Last update to MX Pro was a few months ago, so not so ancient.

https://autohotkey.com/docs/misc/Override.htm

Thanks, useful article, I'll take a close look later.

Especially as I've just discovered MS has also stolen another of my MX
Pro hotkeys, Win+Ctrl+M, which now brings up the Magnifier Settings.

Terry, East Grinstead, UK

Terry Pinnell wrote:

VanguardLH wrote:

Some macro programs can override the system defined keys (and why
they warn about NOT overriding Ctrl+Alt+Del. Apparently your
ancient macro program cannot override.

Last update to MX Pro was a few months ago, so not so ancient.

https://autohotkey.com/docs/misc/Override.htm

Thanks, useful article, I'll take a close look later.

Especially as I've just discovered MS has also stolen another of my
MX Pro hotkeys, Win+Ctrl+M, which now brings up the Magnifier
Settings.

https://www.macros.com/faq/2.4.html
"Macro Express is not able to override the hotkeys that are reserved by
Windows."

That's what I was afraid of. Since you've used MX Pro for so long and
are probably expert at defining macros for it, and because it would be a
huge learning curve to go to another macro tool (e.g., AutoHotkey), and
if it were me, I'd surrender to Microsoft's intrusion and change to a
different key combo.

I'd have to review all the Windows hotkeys to see which combos are
favorited by Microsoft, like if Ctrl+Alt+otherkey are used a lot. If
so, I'd look at some other combo that isn't so favorited, like maybe
Alt+Shift (or Alt+LeftShift or Alt+RightShift since those shift keys
issue difference scan codes and maybe you want to differentiate between
left and right shift keys). I only have some of the Windows hotkeys
memorized so I'd have to go online to search for a list of all Windows
hotkeys to see what modifier combo Microsoft seems to prefer.

In alt.comp.os.windows-10, on Tue, 23 Jan 2018 16:28:17 +0000, Terry
Pinnell wrote:


If you don't want to toss in more software, and since single key
remapping doesn't seem to fit your need to define a handler that
monitors for key sequences (combos), probably the easiest solution is to
reprogram your finger memory to use a different key combo defined in
your macro program

Agreed, I'm coming round to that choice.

Eudora uses Ctrl-Shift-F to find a word within an article (and Ctrl-F to
find a word/email within a mailbox), and I found out after 23 years that
I could reverse these. Of course ctrl-F is already used for Find in
most programs but I still wondered how long it would take to get used to
the change. I think I didn't get it wrong once.

On 2018-01-22 11:08, Terry Pinnell wrote:

I had a short period of panic when all colour on my screen was replaced
by grey. Turns out to be due to the 1709 WU, which has introduced the
subject hotkey. Happens to be the hotkey for my own most used macro,
used for a decade or two and I'm reluctant to change it.

Is there any way to disable it? Brief googling implies not, but...

Maybe a registry hack (but not turning off ALL use of Winkey)?

Terry, East Grinstead, UK

Good news for you Terry, upcoming way to disable the hotkey:
https://winaero.com/blog/enable-disa...ey-windows-10/

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On 01/25/2018 10:09 PM, B00ze wrote:
On 2018-01-22 11:08, Terry Pinnell wrote:

I had a short period of panic when all colour on my screen was replaced
by grey. Turns out to be due to the 1709 WU, which has introduced the
subject hotkey. Happens to be the hotkey for my own most used macro,
used for a decade or two and I'm reluctant to change it.

Is there any way to disable it? Brief googling implies not, but...

Maybe a registry hack (but not turning off ALL use of Winkey)?

Terry, East Grinstead, UK

Good news for you Terry, upcoming way to disable the hotkey:
https://winaero.com/blog/enable-disa...ey-windows-10/

Regards,


Is 17083 an insider version?

Rene

Rene Lamontagne wrote:
On 01/25/2018 10:09 PM, B00ze wrote:
On 2018-01-22 11:08, Terry Pinnell wrote:

I had a short period of panic when all colour on my screen was replaced
by grey. Turns out to be due to the 1709 WU, which has introduced the
subject hotkey. Happens to be the hotkey for my own most used macro,
used for a decade or two and I'm reluctant to change it.

Is there any way to disable it? Brief googling implies not, but...

Maybe a registry hack (but not turning off ALL use of Winkey)?

Terry, East Grinstead, UK

Good news for you Terry, upcoming way to disable the hotkey:
https://winaero.com/blog/enable-disa...ey-windows-10/

Regards,


Is 17083 an insider version?

Rene


Yes, I installed it several hours ago on the Insider drive.

Paul

On 01/26/2018 9:31 AM, Paul wrote:
Rene Lamontagne wrote:
On 01/25/2018 10:09 PM, B00ze wrote:
On 2018-01-22 11:08, Terry Pinnell wrote:

I had a short period of panic when all colour on my screen was replaced
by grey. Turns out to be due to the 1709 WU, which has introduced the
subject hotkey. Happens to be the hotkey for my own most used macro,
used for a decade or two and I'm reluctant to change it.

Is there any way to disable it? Brief googling implies not, but...

Maybe a registry hack (but not turning off ALL use of Winkey)?

Terry, East Grinstead, UK

Good news for you Terry, upcoming way to disable the hotkey:
https://winaero.com/blog/enable-disa...ey-windows-10/

Regards,


Is 17083 an insider version?

Rene


Yes, I installed it several hours ago on the Insider drive.

** Paul


Thanks.

Rene