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Getting rid of phantom hotkey
I am unsure if this the correct forum to post, but I am trying to
remove a phantom hotkey. I assigned "ctrl+shift+f" to a shortcut but accidentally did a shift+del on the shortcut. Now the hotkey is bound to a non-existent shortcut path. I would like to unmap the ctrl+shift +f hotkey but have not been able to figure out how to do this. Thanks in advance! |
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Getting rid of phantom hotkey
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In , herbert422 typed: I am unsure if this the correct forum to post, but I am trying to remove a phantom hotkey. I assigned "ctrl+shift+f" to a shortcut but accidentally did a shift+del on the shortcut. Now the hotkey is bound to a non-existent shortcut path. I would like to unmap the ctrl+shift +f hotkey but have not been able to figure out how to do this. Thanks in advance! I think you can just delete the shortcut and recreate it, can't you? -- Galen (Not Current MS-MVP) My Geek Site: http://kgiii.info Web Hosting: http://whathostingshould.be "In solving a problem of this sort, the grand thing is to be able to reason backwards. That is a very useful accomplishment, and a very easy one, but people do not practise it much. In the every-day affairs of life it is more useful to reason forwards, and so the other comes to be neglected. There are fifty who can reason synthetically for one who can reason analytically." - Sherlock Holmes |
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Getting rid of phantom hotkey
"herbert422" wrote in message ... I am unsure if this the correct forum to post, but I am trying to remove a phantom hotkey. I assigned "ctrl+shift+f" to a shortcut but accidentally did a shift+del on the shortcut. Now the hotkey is bound to a non-existent shortcut path. I would like to unmap the ctrl+shift +f hotkey but have not been able to figure out how to do this. Thanks in advance! Try re-creating an identical shortcut and assigning Ctrl+Shift+f to it; click Apply, then unassign the shortcut key combination (backspace over it) and click Apply. See if that frees it up for a different shortcut. May not work but worth a shot! |
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Getting rid of phantom hotkey
On Sep 15, 3:01*am, "Olórin"
wrote: "herbert422" wrote in message ... I am unsure if this the correct forum to post, but I am trying to remove a phantom hotkey. I assigned "ctrl+shift+f" to a shortcut but accidentally did a shift+del on the shortcut. Now the hotkey is bound to a non-existent shortcut path. I would like to unmap the ctrl+shift +f hotkey but have not been able to figure out how to do this. Thanks in advance! Try re-creating an identical shortcut and assigning Ctrl+Shift+f to it; click Apply, then unassign the shortcut key combination (backspace over it) and click Apply. See if that frees it up for a different shortcut. May not work but worth a shot! Thanks for the reply. I tried recreating the identical shortcut but when I try to apply ctrl+shift+f, it doesn't hold. It should ctrl +shift but once I hit the f key the pattern disappears. Isn't the hotkey store somewhere in the registry? |
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Getting rid of phantom hotkey
"herbert422" wrote in message
... On Sep 15, 3:01 am, "Olórin" wrote: "herbert422" wrote in message ... I am unsure if this the correct forum to post, but I am trying to remove a phantom hotkey. I assigned "ctrl+shift+f" to a shortcut but accidentally did a shift+del on the shortcut. Now the hotkey is bound to a non-existent shortcut path. I would like to unmap the ctrl+shift +f hotkey but have not been able to figure out how to do this. Thanks in advance! Try re-creating an identical shortcut and assigning Ctrl+Shift+f to it; click Apply, then unassign the shortcut key combination (backspace over it) and click Apply. See if that frees it up for a different shortcut. May not work but worth a shot! Thanks for the reply. I tried recreating the identical shortcut but when I try to apply ctrl+shift+f, it doesn't hold. It should ctrl +shift but once I hit the f key the pattern disappears. Isn't the hotkey store somewhere in the registry? =========== It seems not. There's a good discussion of it - see second entry at http://discuss.pcmag.com/forums/thread/260111010.aspx This is something I've run into before and never found a solution for - beyond choosing a different shortcut key combination. When deleting a shortcut now I always make sure I've removed any shortcut key associated with it first. In the past I *have* had success by recreating the shortcut - same name, same location, same target. It can sometimes (not "will always"!) be *automatically* given the hotkeys *by Windows* when you check its properties, and they can then be removed - but not always, as you've found. With the shortcut recreated, albeit without the hotkeys associated, what happens if you press the key combination? There's a (non-free) tool "Hotkey Detective 2" available at http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,1558892,00.asp which may help you - but you won't know until you've paid for it (or subscribed to PC Magazine)... :-( Beyond that, I think this may be one of those mysteries that XP will take with itself to the grave. Sorry I couldn't help more - perhaps someone else can. |
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