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Shortcut keys cannot be re-used
I used to have a Shortcut Ctl-Alt-R which opened a User manual (actually for
Nero). I no longer want to do this as I am fairly used to Nero now and can open it directly when I want to, so I changed the key to (none). I later decided to re-use Ctl-Alt-R to invoke a program which will restart the PC. (I changed the setting in this program to use this sequence.) But I find that using Ctl-Alt-R still invokes the User manual. There was some info. on a Microsoft KB document re this problem, but I can't get it to work. I made sure that the old Shortcut had (none), then deleted it. As there are limited letters to use with Ctl-Alt, the ability to reuse them is important. Can anyone help? However, the Ctl-Alt-R sequence still opend the Help Manual. -- Trevor L. |
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Once you assign a shortcut key combination for a specific program, you will
not be able to use that key combination with other programs. Find the Nero Help Manual or the shortcut to same. Delete the shortcut, if it exists. Follow the instructions below if no shortcut. If you forget the key combination for your shortcut, you can follow steps 2 through 3 and review your shortcut keys. 2. Locate the program file (.exe) or the program's shortcut icon. Right-click the program file or shortcut, and then click Properties. 3. Click the Program tab for an MS-DOS program or the Shortcut tab for a Windows program. -- Hope this helps. Let us know. Wes In , Trevor L. hunted and pecked: I used to have a Shortcut Ctl-Alt-R which opened a User manual (actually for Nero). I no longer want to do this as I am fairly used to Nero now and can open it directly when I want to, so I changed the key to (none). I later decided to re-use Ctl-Alt-R to invoke a program which will restart the PC. (I changed the setting in this program to use this sequence.) But I find that using Ctl-Alt-R still invokes the User manual. There was some info. on a Microsoft KB document re this problem, but I can't get it to work. I made sure that the old Shortcut had (none), then deleted it. As there are limited letters to use with Ctl-Alt, the ability to reuse them is important. Can anyone help? However, the Ctl-Alt-R sequence still opend the Help Manual. |
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Wes,
I am disappointed that I can't reassign a shortcut key to another program. As I say, there are only so many combinations one can use before you run out of keys - 26 alpha, 10 numeric (and perhaps the 12 Function keys although I have ever tried these, so I don't know). I have already deleted the shortcut to the Nero Help Manual, but before I did, I made sure that the shortcut key was set to "(none)". Thanks for the info. as to how to find what key is assigned to a particular shortcut, but since changing it to "(none)" and deleting it makes no difference, it sort of doesn't help too much. Do you know where the info. is stored as to what shortcut key opens what program? Because the info. is retained after the shortcut itself is deleted, I would assume that the info. must be stored in the Registry. But I searched the registry for the value "BurningRom" (as the name of the program opened by the shortcut key is "C:\Program Files\Ahead\Nero\NeroBurningRom_Eng.pdf"). But no entry that I found seemed to contain any info. about shortcut key values. If I could edit the registry to remove/change shortcut key assignments, that would solve the problem. Many thanks "Wesley Vogel" wrote: Once you assign a shortcut key combination for a specific program, you will not be able to use that key combination with other programs. Find the Nero Help Manual or the shortcut to same. Delete the shortcut, if it exists. Follow the instructions below if no shortcut. If you forget the key combination for your shortcut, you can follow steps 2 through 3 and review your shortcut keys. 2. Locate the program file (.exe) or the program's shortcut icon. Right-click the program file or shortcut, and then click Properties. 3. Click the Program tab for an MS-DOS program or the Shortcut tab for a Windows program. -- Hope this helps. Let us know. Wes In , Trevor L. hunted and pecked: I used to have a Shortcut Ctl-Alt-R which opened a User manual (actually for Nero). I no longer want to do this as I am fairly used to Nero now and can open it directly when I want to, so I changed the key to (none). I later decided to re-use Ctl-Alt-R to invoke a program which will restart the PC. (I changed the setting in this program to use this sequence.) But I find that using Ctl-Alt-R still invokes the User manual. There was some info. on a Microsoft KB document re this problem, but I can't get it to work. I made sure that the old Shortcut had (none), then deleted it. As there are limited letters to use with Ctl-Alt, the ability to reuse them is important. Can anyone help? However, the Ctl-Alt-R sequence still opend the Help Manual. |
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When you assign a hotkey, make sure to do it from the shortcut in the
*Programs* list rather than elsewhere (i/e/ NOT from a copy of the shortcut) Don't be frightened to use any unassigned *Function* keys as they do not need trl/Alt as well... I use F2 for WinTV, F4 for MSN etc... You may find *Hotkey Detective* useful http://tinyurl.com/3vurb ....and *Winkey* also http://tinyurl.com/6seou HTH -- ¦ zulu ¦ "Trevor L." wrote in message ... Wes, I am disappointed that I can't reassign a shortcut key to another program. As I say, there are only so many combinations one can use before you run out of keys - 26 alpha, 10 numeric (and perhaps the 12 Function keys although I have ever tried these, so I don't know). I have already deleted the shortcut to the Nero Help Manual, but before I did, I made sure that the shortcut key was set to "(none)". Thanks for the info. as to how to find what key is assigned to a particular shortcut, but since changing it to "(none)" and deleting it makes no difference, it sort of doesn't help too much. Do you know where the info. is stored as to what shortcut key opens what program? Because the info. is retained after the shortcut itself is deleted, I would assume that the info. must be stored in the Registry. But I searched the registry for the value "BurningRom" (as the name of the program opened by the shortcut key is "C:\Program Files\Ahead\Nero\NeroBurningRom_Eng.pdf"). But no entry that I found seemed to contain any info. about shortcut key values. If I could edit the registry to remove/change shortcut key assignments, that would solve the problem. Many thanks "Wesley Vogel" wrote: Once you assign a shortcut key combination for a specific program, you will not be able to use that key combination with other programs. Find the Nero Help Manual or the shortcut to same. Delete the shortcut, if it exists. Follow the instructions below if no shortcut. If you forget the key combination for your shortcut, you can follow steps 2 through 3 and review your shortcut keys. 2. Locate the program file (.exe) or the program's shortcut icon. Right-click the program file or shortcut, and then click Properties. 3. Click the Program tab for an MS-DOS program or the Shortcut tab for a Windows program. -- Hope this helps. Let us know. Wes In , Trevor L. hunted and pecked: I used to have a Shortcut Ctl-Alt-R which opened a User manual (actually for Nero). I no longer want to do this as I am fairly used to Nero now and can open it directly when I want to, so I changed the key to (none). I later decided to re-use Ctl-Alt-R to invoke a program which will restart the PC. (I changed the setting in this program to use this sequence.) But I find that using Ctl-Alt-R still invokes the User manual. There was some info. on a Microsoft KB document re this problem, but I can't get it to work. I made sure that the old Shortcut had (none), then deleted it. As there are limited letters to use with Ctl-Alt, the ability to reuse them is important. Can anyone help? However, the Ctl-Alt-R sequence still opend the Help Manual. |
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They are listed here and in Hex, which I can't read
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Input Method\Hot Keys HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Control Panel\Input Method\Hot Keys HKEY_USERS\S-1-5-18\Control Panel\Input Method\Hot Keys HKEY_USERS\S-1-5-21-1708537768-1580436667-1202660629-1003\Control Panel\Input Method\Hot Keys See zulu's post. -- Hope this helps. Let us know. Wes In , Trevor L. hunted and pecked: Wes, I am disappointed that I can't reassign a shortcut key to another program. As I say, there are only so many combinations one can use before you run out of keys - 26 alpha, 10 numeric (and perhaps the 12 Function keys although I have ever tried these, so I don't know). I have already deleted the shortcut to the Nero Help Manual, but before I did, I made sure that the shortcut key was set to "(none)". Thanks for the info. as to how to find what key is assigned to a particular shortcut, but since changing it to "(none)" and deleting it makes no difference, it sort of doesn't help too much. Do you know where the info. is stored as to what shortcut key opens what program? Because the info. is retained after the shortcut itself is deleted, I would assume that the info. must be stored in the Registry. But I searched the registry for the value "BurningRom" (as the name of the program opened by the shortcut key is "C:\Program Files\Ahead\Nero\NeroBurningRom_Eng.pdf"). But no entry that I found seemed to contain any info. about shortcut key values. If I could edit the registry to remove/change shortcut key assignments, that would solve the problem. Many thanks "Wesley Vogel" wrote: Once you assign a shortcut key combination for a specific program, you will not be able to use that key combination with other programs. Find the Nero Help Manual or the shortcut to same. Delete the shortcut, if it exists. Follow the instructions below if no shortcut. If you forget the key combination for your shortcut, you can follow steps 2 through 3 and review your shortcut keys. 2. Locate the program file (.exe) or the program's shortcut icon. Right-click the program file or shortcut, and then click Properties. 3. Click the Program tab for an MS-DOS program or the Shortcut tab for a Windows program. -- Hope this helps. Let us know. Wes In , Trevor L. hunted and pecked: I used to have a Shortcut Ctl-Alt-R which opened a User manual (actually for Nero). I no longer want to do this as I am fairly used to Nero now and can open it directly when I want to, so I changed the key to (none). I later decided to re-use Ctl-Alt-R to invoke a program which will restart the PC. (I changed the setting in this program to use this sequence.) But I find that using Ctl-Alt-R still invokes the User manual. There was some info. on a Microsoft KB document re this problem, but I can't get it to work. I made sure that the old Shortcut had (none), then deleted it. As there are limited letters to use with Ctl-Alt, the ability to reuse them is important. Can anyone help? However, the Ctl-Alt-R sequence still opend the Help Manual. |
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Zulu and Wes,
Thanks to you both Zulu, Yes, I will set the shortcut key as you suggested. I will try different keys, including Function keys - sounds good. Wes, I have yet to try your suggestions for the Registry, but am looking forward to it. BTW, I have managed to assign the key I used before to the new program. Whether this is the only way or not or whetehr it will continue to work, I don't know, but here is what I did. I re-created the old Shortcut (it had been deleted) and enetered the old shortcut key. I tested it and it worked (referring to the old program). I then changed the key in that shortcut to "none" and tried the shortcut key again - it did nothing (as one would hope). I then allocated the key to the new program, tried it, and it worked !! I still have the old shortcut with key set to "none", but that's OK - I just moved it a general folder with other shortcuts - not the desktop, which I don't want cluttered. I don't know whether this is worth posting anywhere, as the KB article I read (can't remember the number) said keys cannot be reallocated, as did you , Wes. Many thanks "Trevor L." wrote: Wes, I am disappointed that I can't reassign a shortcut key to another program. As I say, there are only so many combinations one can use before you run out of keys - 26 alpha, 10 numeric (and perhaps the 12 Function keys although I have ever tried these, so I don't know). I have already deleted the shortcut to the Nero Help Manual, but before I did, I made sure that the shortcut key was set to "(none)". Thanks for the info. as to how to find what key is assigned to a particular shortcut, but since changing it to "(none)" and deleting it makes no difference, it sort of doesn't help too much. Do you know where the info. is stored as to what shortcut key opens what program? Because the info. is retained after the shortcut itself is deleted, I would assume that the info. must be stored in the Registry. But I searched the registry for the value "BurningRom" (as the name of the program opened by the shortcut key is "C:\Program Files\Ahead\Nero\NeroBurningRom_Eng.pdf"). But no entry that I found seemed to contain any info. about shortcut key values. If I could edit the registry to remove/change shortcut key assignments, that would solve the problem. Many thanks "Wesley Vogel" wrote: Once you assign a shortcut key combination for a specific program, you will not be able to use that key combination with other programs. Find the Nero Help Manual or the shortcut to same. Delete the shortcut, if it exists. Follow the instructions below if no shortcut. If you forget the key combination for your shortcut, you can follow steps 2 through 3 and review your shortcut keys. 2. Locate the program file (.exe) or the program's shortcut icon. Right-click the program file or shortcut, and then click Properties. 3. Click the Program tab for an MS-DOS program or the Shortcut tab for a Windows program. -- Hope this helps. Let us know. Wes In , Trevor L. hunted and pecked: I used to have a Shortcut Ctl-Alt-R which opened a User manual (actually for Nero). I no longer want to do this as I am fairly used to Nero now and can open it directly when I want to, so I changed the key to (none). I later decided to re-use Ctl-Alt-R to invoke a program which will restart the PC. (I changed the setting in this program to use this sequence.) But I find that using Ctl-Alt-R still invokes the User manual. There was some info. on a Microsoft KB document re this problem, but I can't get it to work. I made sure that the old Shortcut had (none), then deleted it. As there are limited letters to use with Ctl-Alt, the ability to reuse them is important. Can anyone help? However, the Ctl-Alt-R sequence still opend the Help Manual. |
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Hi Wes,
I have had a look at these keys in the registry, but I can't make a lot of sense of them. In each of the first 3, there are 9 subkeys (I think that is what they are called) 00000010, 00000011, 00000012, 00000070, 00000071, 00000072, 00000200, 00000201, 00000202. The last (HKEY_USERS\S-1-5-21-1708537768-1580436667-1202660629-1003\Control Panel\Input Method\Hot Keys) doesn't exist. Maybe this is machine specific. One (I at least) would/might think that these represent the various shortcut keys set. However, the ones that I know I have used are B,D,E,K,L,N,O,P,Q,T,V,W,X,Z plus the one which caused the problem, namely R. That makes more than 9! Because I seem to have resolved the specific problem with the R shortcut, I am not too concerned, but if you have any further ideas, then I would be grateful. Thanks "Wesley Vogel" wrote: They are listed here and in Hex, which I can't read HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Input Method\Hot Keys HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Control Panel\Input Method\Hot Keys HKEY_USERS\S-1-5-18\Control Panel\Input Method\Hot Keys HKEY_USERS\S-1-5-21-1708537768-1580436667-1202660629-1003\Control Panel\Input Method\Hot Keys See zulu's post. -- Hope this helps. Let us know. Wes In , Trevor L. hunted and pecked: Wes, I am disappointed that I can't reassign a shortcut key to another program. As I say, there are only so many combinations one can use before you run out of keys - 26 alpha, 10 numeric (and perhaps the 12 Function keys although I have ever tried these, so I don't know). I have already deleted the shortcut to the Nero Help Manual, but before I did, I made sure that the shortcut key was set to "(none)". Thanks for the info. as to how to find what key is assigned to a particular shortcut, but since changing it to "(none)" and deleting it makes no difference, it sort of doesn't help too much. Do you know where the info. is stored as to what shortcut key opens what program? Because the info. is retained after the shortcut itself is deleted, I would assume that the info. must be stored in the Registry. But I searched the registry for the value "BurningRom" (as the name of the program opened by the shortcut key is "C:\Program Files\Ahead\Nero\NeroBurningRom_Eng.pdf"). But no entry that I found seemed to contain any info. about shortcut key values. If I could edit the registry to remove/change shortcut key assignments, that would solve the problem. Many thanks "Wesley Vogel" wrote: Once you assign a shortcut key combination for a specific program, you will not be able to use that key combination with other programs. Find the Nero Help Manual or the shortcut to same. Delete the shortcut, if it exists. Follow the instructions below if no shortcut. If you forget the key combination for your shortcut, you can follow steps 2 through 3 and review your shortcut keys. 2. Locate the program file (.exe) or the program's shortcut icon. Right-click the program file or shortcut, and then click Properties. 3. Click the Program tab for an MS-DOS program or the Shortcut tab for a Windows program. -- Hope this helps. Let us know. Wes In , Trevor L. hunted and pecked: I used to have a Shortcut Ctl-Alt-R which opened a User manual (actually for Nero). I no longer want to do this as I am fairly used to Nero now and can open it directly when I want to, so I changed the key to (none). I later decided to re-use Ctl-Alt-R to invoke a program which will restart the PC. (I changed the setting in this program to use this sequence.) But I find that using Ctl-Alt-R still invokes the User manual. There was some info. on a Microsoft KB document re this problem, but I can't get it to work. I made sure that the old Shortcut had (none), then deleted it. As there are limited letters to use with Ctl-Alt, the ability to reuse them is important. Can anyone help? However, the Ctl-Alt-R sequence still opend the Help Manual. |
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Hotkeys is a multilanguage thing. AppKeys is the Volume keys et al on a =
keyboard, not normal keys. The subkeys you refer to are commands (10 is enable/disable the IME - in = chinese anyway). The key assigfned to that command is in the subkeys of = that number. vk is the key and modifier is the ctrl/alt/shift pressed = with that key. Here's a list of numbers. Use calculator to convert to decimal. &H means = it's a a hex number. So &H20 is hex 20 or decimal 32 (which is space). A = is 65 and Z is 65+26-1(cos we start at 1 before A)=3D90. a is 97 so z is = 96+26=3D122. 0 to 9 is 58 to 57. Public Const MOD_ALT =3D &H1 Public Const MOD_CONTROL =3D &H2 Public Const MOD_SHIFT =3D &H4 [I'll guess the Winkey is &h8) Const VK_LBUTTON =3D &H1 Const VK_RBUTTON =3D &H2 Const VK_CANCEL =3D &H3 Const VK_MBUTTON =3D &H4 ' NOT contiguous with L RBUTTON Const VK_BACK =3D &H8 Const VK_TAB =3D &H9 Const VK_CLEAR =3D &HC Const VK_RETURN =3D &HD Const VK_SHIFT =3D &H10 Const VK_CONTROL =3D &H11 Const VK_MENU =3D &H12 Const VK_PAUSE =3D &H13 Const VK_CAPITAL =3D &H14 Const VK_ESCAPE =3D &H1B Const VK_SPACE =3D &H20 Const VK_PRIOR =3D &H21 Const VK_NEXT =3D &H22 Const VK_END =3D &H23 Const VK_HOME =3D &H24 Const VK_LEFT =3D &H25 Const VK_UP =3D &H26 Const VK_RIGHT =3D &H27 Const VK_DOWN =3D &H28 Const VK_SELECT =3D &H29 Const VK_PRINT =3D &H2A Const VK_EXECUTE =3D &H2B Const VK_SNAPSHOT =3D &H2C Const VK_INSERT =3D &H2D Const VK_DELETE =3D &H2E Const VK_HELP =3D &H2F ' VK_A thru VK_Z are the same as their ASCII equivalents: 'A' thru 'Z' ' VK_0 thru VK_9 are the same as their ASCII equivalents: '0' thru '9' Const VK_NUMPAD0 =3D &H60 Const VK_NUMPAD1 =3D &H61 Const VK_NUMPAD2 =3D &H62 Const VK_NUMPAD3 =3D &H63 Const VK_NUMPAD4 =3D &H64 Const VK_NUMPAD5 =3D &H65 Const VK_NUMPAD6 =3D &H66 Const VK_NUMPAD7 =3D &H67 Const VK_NUMPAD8 =3D &H68 Const VK_NUMPAD9 =3D &H69 Const VK_MULTIPLY =3D &H6A Const VK_ADD =3D &H6B Const VK_SEPARATOR =3D &H6C Const VK_SUBTRACT =3D &H6D Const VK_DECIMAL =3D &H6E Const VK_DIVIDE =3D &H6F Const VK_F1 =3D &H70 Const VK_F2 =3D &H71 Const VK_F3 =3D &H72 Const VK_F4 =3D &H73 Const VK_F5 =3D &H74 Const VK_F6 =3D &H75 Const VK_F7 =3D &H76 Const VK_F8 =3D &H77 Const VK_F9 =3D &H78 Const VK_F10 =3D &H79 Const VK_F11 =3D &H7A Const VK_F12 =3D &H7B Const VK_F13 =3D &H7C Const VK_F14 =3D &H7D Const VK_F15 =3D &H7E Const VK_F16 =3D &H7F Const VK_F17 =3D &H80 Const VK_F18 =3D &H81 Const VK_F19 =3D &H82 Const VK_F20 =3D &H83 Const VK_F21 =3D &H84 Const VK_F22 =3D &H85 Const VK_F23 =3D &H86 Const VK_F24 =3D &H87 Const VK_NUMLOCK =3D &H90 Const VK_SCROLL =3D &H91 ' ' VK_L VK_R - left and right Alt, Ctrl and Shift virtual keys. ' Used only as parameters to GetAsyncKeyState() and GetKeyState(). ' No other API or message will distinguish left and right keys in this = way. ' / Const VK_LSHIFT =3D &HA0 Const VK_RSHIFT =3D &HA1 Const VK_LCONTROL =3D &HA2 Const VK_RCONTROL =3D &HA3 Const VK_LMENU =3D &HA4 Const VK_RMENU =3D &HA5 Const VK_ATTN =3D &HF6 Const VK_CRSEL =3D &HF7 Const VK_EXSEL =3D &HF8 Const VK_EREOF =3D &HF9 Const VK_PLAY =3D &HFA Const VK_ZOOM =3D &HFB Const VK_NONAME =3D &HFC Const VK_PA1 =3D &HFD Const VK_OEM_CLEAR =3D &HFE Remember that F12 is not to be used as a hotkey. If using the = international keyboard then Ctrl + Left Hand Side Alt =3D Right hand = side Alt. While this works correctly there is potential for conflict. Also any program can set a hotkey. Also any application can have a = hotkey to it's window set when it's started. Very little to do with = hotkeys involves the registry. It's programs doing stuff. --=20 ---------------------------------------------------------- http://www.uscricket.com "Trevor L." wrote in message = ... Hi Wes, I have had a look at these keys in the registry, but I can't make a = lot of=20 sense of them. =20 In each of the first 3, there are 9 subkeys (I think that is what they = are=20 called) 00000010, 00000011, 00000012, 00000070, 00000071, 00000072, 00000200,=20 00000201, 00000202. =20 The last = (HKEY_USERS\S-1-5-21-1708537768-1580436667-1202660629-1003\Control=20 Panel\Input Method\Hot Keys) doesn't exist. Maybe this is machine = specific. =20 One (I at least) would/might think that these represent the various = shortcut=20 keys set. However, the ones that I know I have used are=20 B,D,E,K,L,N,O,P,Q,T,V,W,X,Z plus the one which caused the problem, = namely R.=20 That makes more than 9! =20 Because I seem to have resolved the specific problem with the R = shortcut, I=20 am not too concerned, but if you have any further ideas, then I would = be=20 grateful. =20 Thanks =20 =20 "Wesley Vogel" wrote: =20 They are listed here and in Hex, which I can't read =20 HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Input Method\Hot Keys =20 HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Control Panel\Input Method\Hot Keys =20 HKEY_USERS\S-1-5-18\Control Panel\Input Method\Hot Keys =20 HKEY_USERS\S-1-5-21-1708537768-1580436667-1202660629-1003\Control Panel\Input Method\Hot Keys =20 See zulu's post. =20 --=20 Hope this helps. Let us know. Wes =20 In , Trevor L. hunted and pecked: Wes, I am disappointed that I can't reassign a shortcut key to another program. As I say, there are only so many combinations one can use before you run out of keys - 26 alpha, 10 numeric (and perhaps the = 12 Function keys although I have ever tried these, so I don't know). I have already deleted the shortcut to the Nero Help Manual, but before I did, I made sure that the shortcut key was set to = "(none)". Thanks for the info. as to how to find what key is assigned to a particular shortcut, but since changing it to "(none)" and deleting it makes no difference, it sort of doesn't help too much. Do you know where the info. is stored as to what shortcut key opens what program? Because the info. is retained after the shortcut itself is deleted, = I would assume that the info. must be stored in the Registry. But I searched the registry for the value "BurningRom" (as the name of = the program opened by the shortcut key is "C:\Program Files\Ahead\Nero\NeroBurningRom_Eng.pdf"). But no entry that I = found seemed to contain any info. about shortcut key values. If I could edit the registry to remove/change shortcut key assignments, that would solve the problem. Many thanks "Wesley Vogel" wrote: Once you assign a shortcut key combination for a specific program, you will not be able to use that key combination with other = programs. Find the Nero Help Manual or the shortcut to same. Delete the shortcut, if it exists. Follow the instructions below if no shortcut. If you forget the key combination for your shortcut, you can = follow steps 2 through 3 and review your shortcut keys. 2. Locate the program file (.exe) or the program's shortcut icon. Right-click the program file or shortcut, and then click = Properties. 3. Click the Program tab for an MS-DOS program or the Shortcut tab for a Windows program. -- Hope this helps. Let us know. Wes In , Trevor L. hunted and pecked: I used to have a Shortcut Ctl-Alt-R which opened a User manual (actually for Nero). I no longer want to do this as I am fairly = used to Nero now and can open it directly when I want to, so I changed the key to (none). I later decided to re-use Ctl-Alt-R to invoke a program which = will restart the PC. (I changed the setting in this program to use = this sequence.) But I find that using Ctl-Alt-R still invokes the User manual. = There was some info. on a Microsoft KB document re this problem, but I can't get it to work. I made sure that the old Shortcut had = (none), then deleted it. As there are limited letters to use with Ctl-Alt, the ability to reuse them is important. Can anyone help? However, the Ctl-Alt-R sequence still opend the Help Manual. =20 |
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Shortcut keys cannot be re-used
Trevor,
See David Candy's post. I mentioned that I couldn't read hex, he can. Glad to hear that you got it sorted out. BTW, I'm still deciphering David's post. :-) And working on 49 other things. -- Hope this helps. Let us know. Wes In news Trevor L. hunted and pecked: Zulu and Wes, Thanks to you both Zulu, Yes, I will set the shortcut key as you suggested. I will try different keys, including Function keys - sounds good. Wes, I have yet to try your suggestions for the Registry, but am looking forward to it. BTW, I have managed to assign the key I used before to the new program. Whether this is the only way or not or whetehr it will continue to work, I don't know, but here is what I did. I re-created the old Shortcut (it had been deleted) and enetered the old shortcut key. I tested it and it worked (referring to the old program). I then changed the key in that shortcut to "none" and tried the shortcut key again - it did nothing (as one would hope). I then allocated the key to the new program, tried it, and it worked !! I still have the old shortcut with key set to "none", but that's OK - I just moved it a general folder with other shortcuts - not the desktop, which I don't want cluttered. I don't know whether this is worth posting anywhere, as the KB article I read (can't remember the number) said keys cannot be reallocated, as did you , Wes. Many thanks "Trevor L." wrote: Wes, I am disappointed that I can't reassign a shortcut key to another program. As I say, there are only so many combinations one can use before you run out of keys - 26 alpha, 10 numeric (and perhaps the 12 Function keys although I have ever tried these, so I don't know). I have already deleted the shortcut to the Nero Help Manual, but before I did, I made sure that the shortcut key was set to "(none)". Thanks for the info. as to how to find what key is assigned to a particular shortcut, but since changing it to "(none)" and deleting it makes no difference, it sort of doesn't help too much. Do you know where the info. is stored as to what shortcut key opens what program? Because the info. is retained after the shortcut itself is deleted, I would assume that the info. must be stored in the Registry. But I searched the registry for the value "BurningRom" (as the name of the program opened by the shortcut key is "C:\Program Files\Ahead\Nero\NeroBurningRom_Eng.pdf"). But no entry that I found seemed to contain any info. about shortcut key values. If I could edit the registry to remove/change shortcut key assignments, that would solve the problem. Many thanks "Wesley Vogel" wrote: Once you assign a shortcut key combination for a specific program, you will not be able to use that key combination with other programs. Find the Nero Help Manual or the shortcut to same. Delete the shortcut, if it exists. Follow the instructions below if no shortcut. If you forget the key combination for your shortcut, you can follow steps 2 through 3 and review your shortcut keys. 2. Locate the program file (.exe) or the program's shortcut icon. Right-click the program file or shortcut, and then click Properties. 3. Click the Program tab for an MS-DOS program or the Shortcut tab for a Windows program. -- Hope this helps. Let us know. Wes In , Trevor L. hunted and pecked: I used to have a Shortcut Ctl-Alt-R which opened a User manual (actually for Nero). I no longer want to do this as I am fairly used to Nero now and can open it directly when I want to, so I changed the key to (none). I later decided to re-use Ctl-Alt-R to invoke a program which will restart the PC. (I changed the setting in this program to use this sequence.) But I find that using Ctl-Alt-R still invokes the User manual. There was some info. on a Microsoft KB document re this problem, but I can't get it to work. I made sure that the old Shortcut had (none), then deleted it. As there are limited letters to use with Ctl-Alt, the ability to reuse them is important. Can anyone help? However, the Ctl-Alt-R sequence still opend the Help Manual. |
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Trevor,
See David Candy's post. I mentioned that I couldn't read hex, he can. Glad to hear that you got it sorted out. BTW, I'm still deciphering David's post. :-) And working on 49 other things. -- Hope this helps. Let us know. Wes In news Trevor L. hunted and pecked: Zulu and Wes, Thanks to you both Zulu, Yes, I will set the shortcut key as you suggested. I will try different keys, including Function keys - sounds good. Wes, I have yet to try your suggestions for the Registry, but am looking forward to it. BTW, I have managed to assign the key I used before to the new program. Whether this is the only way or not or whetehr it will continue to work, I don't know, but here is what I did. I re-created the old Shortcut (it had been deleted) and enetered the old shortcut key. I tested it and it worked (referring to the old program). I then changed the key in that shortcut to "none" and tried the shortcut key again - it did nothing (as one would hope). I then allocated the key to the new program, tried it, and it worked !! I still have the old shortcut with key set to "none", but that's OK - I just moved it a general folder with other shortcuts - not the desktop, which I don't want cluttered. I don't know whether this is worth posting anywhere, as the KB article I read (can't remember the number) said keys cannot be reallocated, as did you , Wes. Many thanks "Trevor L." wrote: Wes, I am disappointed that I can't reassign a shortcut key to another program. As I say, there are only so many combinations one can use before you run out of keys - 26 alpha, 10 numeric (and perhaps the 12 Function keys although I have ever tried these, so I don't know). I have already deleted the shortcut to the Nero Help Manual, but before I did, I made sure that the shortcut key was set to "(none)". Thanks for the info. as to how to find what key is assigned to a particular shortcut, but since changing it to "(none)" and deleting it makes no difference, it sort of doesn't help too much. Do you know where the info. is stored as to what shortcut key opens what program? Because the info. is retained after the shortcut itself is deleted, I would assume that the info. must be stored in the Registry. But I searched the registry for the value "BurningRom" (as the name of the program opened by the shortcut key is "C:\Program Files\Ahead\Nero\NeroBurningRom_Eng.pdf"). But no entry that I found seemed to contain any info. about shortcut key values. If I could edit the registry to remove/change shortcut key assignments, that would solve the problem. Many thanks "Wesley Vogel" wrote: Once you assign a shortcut key combination for a specific program, you will not be able to use that key combination with other programs. Find the Nero Help Manual or the shortcut to same. Delete the shortcut, if it exists. Follow the instructions below if no shortcut. If you forget the key combination for your shortcut, you can follow steps 2 through 3 and review your shortcut keys. 2. Locate the program file (.exe) or the program's shortcut icon. Right-click the program file or shortcut, and then click Properties. 3. Click the Program tab for an MS-DOS program or the Shortcut tab for a Windows program. -- Hope this helps. Let us know. Wes In , Trevor L. hunted and pecked: I used to have a Shortcut Ctl-Alt-R which opened a User manual (actually for Nero). I no longer want to do this as I am fairly used to Nero now and can open it directly when I want to, so I changed the key to (none). I later decided to re-use Ctl-Alt-R to invoke a program which will restart the PC. (I changed the setting in this program to use this sequence.) But I find that using Ctl-Alt-R still invokes the User manual. There was some info. on a Microsoft KB document re this problem, but I can't get it to work. I made sure that the old Shortcut had (none), then deleted it. As there are limited letters to use with Ctl-Alt, the ability to reuse them is important. Can anyone help? However, the Ctl-Alt-R sequence still opend the Help Manual. |
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Wes,
Hi again, Yes, David's post does take a bit of deciphering ! As for reading hex, the Standard Calculator will allow you to convert. For Hex to Dec, change to Scientific view (from the View menu entry), click on Hex, enter a number in Hex, then click on Dec to convert (and vice versa for Dec to Hex). Good luck with the 49 other things. It is great to have people such as you. Sometimes I can actually contribute myself as I learn a bit more !! "Wesley Vogel" wrote: Trevor, See David Candy's post. I mentioned that I couldn't read hex, he can. Glad to hear that you got it sorted out. BTW, I'm still deciphering David's post. :-) And working on 49 other things. -- Hope this helps. Let us know. Wes In news Trevor L. hunted and pecked: Zulu and Wes, Thanks to you both Zulu, Yes, I will set the shortcut key as you suggested. I will try different keys, including Function keys - sounds good. Wes, I have yet to try your suggestions for the Registry, but am looking forward to it. BTW, I have managed to assign the key I used before to the new program. Whether this is the only way or not or whetehr it will continue to work, I don't know, but here is what I did. I re-created the old Shortcut (it had been deleted) and enetered the old shortcut key. I tested it and it worked (referring to the old program). I then changed the key in that shortcut to "none" and tried the shortcut key again - it did nothing (as one would hope). I then allocated the key to the new program, tried it, and it worked !! I still have the old shortcut with key set to "none", but that's OK - I just moved it a general folder with other shortcuts - not the desktop, which I don't want cluttered. I don't know whether this is worth posting anywhere, as the KB article I read (can't remember the number) said keys cannot be reallocated, as did you , Wes. Many thanks "Trevor L." wrote: Wes, I am disappointed that I can't reassign a shortcut key to another program. As I say, there are only so many combinations one can use before you run out of keys - 26 alpha, 10 numeric (and perhaps the 12 Function keys although I have ever tried these, so I don't know). I have already deleted the shortcut to the Nero Help Manual, but before I did, I made sure that the shortcut key was set to "(none)". Thanks for the info. as to how to find what key is assigned to a particular shortcut, but since changing it to "(none)" and deleting it makes no difference, it sort of doesn't help too much. Do you know where the info. is stored as to what shortcut key opens what program? Because the info. is retained after the shortcut itself is deleted, I would assume that the info. must be stored in the Registry. But I searched the registry for the value "BurningRom" (as the name of the program opened by the shortcut key is "C:\Program Files\Ahead\Nero\NeroBurningRom_Eng.pdf"). But no entry that I found seemed to contain any info. about shortcut key values. If I could edit the registry to remove/change shortcut key assignments, that would solve the problem. Many thanks "Wesley Vogel" wrote: Once you assign a shortcut key combination for a specific program, you will not be able to use that key combination with other programs. Find the Nero Help Manual or the shortcut to same. Delete the shortcut, if it exists. Follow the instructions below if no shortcut. If you forget the key combination for your shortcut, you can follow steps 2 through 3 and review your shortcut keys. 2. Locate the program file (.exe) or the program's shortcut icon. Right-click the program file or shortcut, and then click Properties. 3. Click the Program tab for an MS-DOS program or the Shortcut tab for a Windows program. -- Hope this helps. Let us know. Wes In , Trevor L. hunted and pecked: I used to have a Shortcut Ctl-Alt-R which opened a User manual (actually for Nero). I no longer want to do this as I am fairly used to Nero now and can open it directly when I want to, so I changed the key to (none). I later decided to re-use Ctl-Alt-R to invoke a program which will restart the PC. (I changed the setting in this program to use this sequence.) But I find that using Ctl-Alt-R still invokes the User manual. There was some info. on a Microsoft KB document re this problem, but I can't get it to work. I made sure that the old Shortcut had (none), then deleted it. As there are limited letters to use with Ctl-Alt, the ability to reuse them is important. Can anyone help? However, the Ctl-Alt-R sequence still opend the Help Manual. |
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Wes,
Hi again, Yes, David's post does take a bit of deciphering ! As for reading hex, the Standard Calculator will allow you to convert. For Hex to Dec, change to Scientific view (from the View menu entry), click on Hex, enter a number in Hex, then click on Dec to convert (and vice versa for Dec to Hex). Good luck with the 49 other things. It is great to have people such as you. Sometimes I can actually contribute myself as I learn a bit more !! "Wesley Vogel" wrote: Trevor, See David Candy's post. I mentioned that I couldn't read hex, he can. Glad to hear that you got it sorted out. BTW, I'm still deciphering David's post. :-) And working on 49 other things. -- Hope this helps. Let us know. Wes In news Trevor L. hunted and pecked: Zulu and Wes, Thanks to you both Zulu, Yes, I will set the shortcut key as you suggested. I will try different keys, including Function keys - sounds good. Wes, I have yet to try your suggestions for the Registry, but am looking forward to it. BTW, I have managed to assign the key I used before to the new program. Whether this is the only way or not or whetehr it will continue to work, I don't know, but here is what I did. I re-created the old Shortcut (it had been deleted) and enetered the old shortcut key. I tested it and it worked (referring to the old program). I then changed the key in that shortcut to "none" and tried the shortcut key again - it did nothing (as one would hope). I then allocated the key to the new program, tried it, and it worked !! I still have the old shortcut with key set to "none", but that's OK - I just moved it a general folder with other shortcuts - not the desktop, which I don't want cluttered. I don't know whether this is worth posting anywhere, as the KB article I read (can't remember the number) said keys cannot be reallocated, as did you , Wes. Many thanks "Trevor L." wrote: Wes, I am disappointed that I can't reassign a shortcut key to another program. As I say, there are only so many combinations one can use before you run out of keys - 26 alpha, 10 numeric (and perhaps the 12 Function keys although I have ever tried these, so I don't know). I have already deleted the shortcut to the Nero Help Manual, but before I did, I made sure that the shortcut key was set to "(none)". Thanks for the info. as to how to find what key is assigned to a particular shortcut, but since changing it to "(none)" and deleting it makes no difference, it sort of doesn't help too much. Do you know where the info. is stored as to what shortcut key opens what program? Because the info. is retained after the shortcut itself is deleted, I would assume that the info. must be stored in the Registry. But I searched the registry for the value "BurningRom" (as the name of the program opened by the shortcut key is "C:\Program Files\Ahead\Nero\NeroBurningRom_Eng.pdf"). But no entry that I found seemed to contain any info. about shortcut key values. If I could edit the registry to remove/change shortcut key assignments, that would solve the problem. Many thanks "Wesley Vogel" wrote: Once you assign a shortcut key combination for a specific program, you will not be able to use that key combination with other programs. Find the Nero Help Manual or the shortcut to same. Delete the shortcut, if it exists. Follow the instructions below if no shortcut. If you forget the key combination for your shortcut, you can follow steps 2 through 3 and review your shortcut keys. 2. Locate the program file (.exe) or the program's shortcut icon. Right-click the program file or shortcut, and then click Properties. 3. Click the Program tab for an MS-DOS program or the Shortcut tab for a Windows program. -- Hope this helps. Let us know. Wes In , Trevor L. hunted and pecked: I used to have a Shortcut Ctl-Alt-R which opened a User manual (actually for Nero). I no longer want to do this as I am fairly used to Nero now and can open it directly when I want to, so I changed the key to (none). I later decided to re-use Ctl-Alt-R to invoke a program which will restart the PC. (I changed the setting in this program to use this sequence.) But I find that using Ctl-Alt-R still invokes the User manual. There was some info. on a Microsoft KB document re this problem, but I can't get it to work. I made sure that the old Shortcut had (none), then deleted it. As there are limited letters to use with Ctl-Alt, the ability to reuse them is important. Can anyone help? However, the Ctl-Alt-R sequence still opend the Help Manual. |
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http://www.microsoft.com/globaldev/o...downloads.mspx
is a upgraded calculator with lots of conversions, incl to units I've = not heard off. It has three modes - normal, scientific (both look same = as old one), and conversions. (I metre =3D 4 keub or 1 metre =3D 0.333 = shaku). Cask wine is big in Australia. It's normally sold in 0.002 kwian = containers. It also does currency conversions. But only supports auto updating of = rates for the Euro. --=20 ---------------------------------------------------------- http://www.uscricket.com "Trevor L." wrote in message = ... Wes, Hi again, =20 Yes, David's post does take a bit of deciphering ! =20 As for reading hex, the Standard Calculator will allow you to convert. = For=20 Hex to Dec, change to Scientific view (from the View menu entry), = click on=20 Hex, enter a number in Hex, then click on Dec to convert (and vice = versa for=20 Dec to Hex). =20 Good luck with the 49 other things. It is great to have people such as = you.=20 Sometimes I can actually contribute myself as I learn a bit more !! =20 "Wesley Vogel" wrote: =20 Trevor, =20 See David Candy's post. I mentioned that I couldn't read hex, he = can. =20 Glad to hear that you got it sorted out. =20 BTW, I'm still deciphering David's post. :-) And working on 49 = other things. =20 --=20 Hope this helps. Let us know. Wes =20 In news Trevor L. hunted and pecked: Zulu and Wes, Thanks to you both Zulu, Yes, I will set the shortcut key as you suggested. I will try different keys, including Function keys - sounds good. Wes, I have yet to try your suggestions for the Registry, but am looking forward to it. BTW, I have managed to assign the key I used before to the new program. Whether this is the only way or not or whetehr it will continue to work, I don't know, but here is what I did. I re-created the old Shortcut (it had been deleted) and enetered = the old shortcut key. I tested it and it worked (referring to the old program). I then changed the key in that shortcut to "none" and = tried the shortcut key again - it did nothing (as one would hope). I = then allocated the key to the new program, tried it, and it worked !! I still have the old shortcut with key set to "none", but that's OK = - I just moved it a general folder with other shortcuts - not the desktop, which I don't want cluttered. I don't know whether this is worth posting anywhere, as the KB article I read (can't remember the number) said keys cannot be reallocated, as did you , Wes. Many thanks "Trevor L." wrote: Wes, I am disappointed that I can't reassign a shortcut key to another program. As I say, there are only so many combinations one can use before you run out of keys - 26 alpha, 10 numeric (and perhaps the 12 Function keys although I have ever tried these, so I don't = know). I have already deleted the shortcut to the Nero Help Manual, but before I did, I made sure that the shortcut key was set to = "(none)". Thanks for the info. as to how to find what key is assigned to a particular shortcut, but since changing it to "(none)" and = deleting it makes no difference, it sort of doesn't help too much. Do you know where the info. is stored as to what shortcut key = opens what program? Because the info. is retained after the shortcut itself is = deleted, I would assume that the info. must be stored in the Registry. But = I searched the registry for the value "BurningRom" (as the name of = the program opened by the shortcut key is "C:\Program Files\Ahead\Nero\NeroBurningRom_Eng.pdf"). But no entry that I = found seemed to contain any info. about shortcut key values. If I could edit the registry to remove/change shortcut key assignments, that would solve the problem. Many thanks "Wesley Vogel" wrote: Once you assign a shortcut key combination for a specific = program, you will not be able to use that key combination with other programs. Find the Nero Help Manual or the shortcut to same. Delete the shortcut, if it exists. Follow the instructions below if no shortcut. If you forget the key combination for your shortcut, you can = follow steps 2 through 3 and review your shortcut keys. 2. Locate the program file (.exe) or the program's shortcut icon. Right-click the program file or shortcut, and then click = Properties. 3. Click the Program tab for an MS-DOS program or the Shortcut = tab for a Windows program. -- Hope this helps. Let us know. Wes In , Trevor L. hunted and pecked: I used to have a Shortcut Ctl-Alt-R which opened a User manual (actually for Nero). I no longer want to do this as I am fairly used to Nero now and can open it directly when I want to, so I changed the key to (none). I later decided to re-use Ctl-Alt-R to invoke a program which = will restart the PC. (I changed the setting in this program to use = this sequence.) But I find that using Ctl-Alt-R still invokes the User manual. There was some info. on a Microsoft KB document re this problem, but I can't get it to work. I made sure that the old Shortcut = had (none), then deleted it. As there are limited letters to use with Ctl-Alt, the ability to reuse them is important. Can anyone help? However, the Ctl-Alt-R sequence still opend the Help Manual. =20 |
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http://www.microsoft.com/globaldev/o...downloads.mspx
is a upgraded calculator with lots of conversions, incl to units I've = not heard off. It has three modes - normal, scientific (both look same = as old one), and conversions. (I metre =3D 4 keub or 1 metre =3D 0.333 = shaku). Cask wine is big in Australia. It's normally sold in 0.002 kwian = containers. It also does currency conversions. But only supports auto updating of = rates for the Euro. --=20 ---------------------------------------------------------- http://www.uscricket.com "Trevor L." wrote in message = ... Wes, Hi again, =20 Yes, David's post does take a bit of deciphering ! =20 As for reading hex, the Standard Calculator will allow you to convert. = For=20 Hex to Dec, change to Scientific view (from the View menu entry), = click on=20 Hex, enter a number in Hex, then click on Dec to convert (and vice = versa for=20 Dec to Hex). =20 Good luck with the 49 other things. It is great to have people such as = you.=20 Sometimes I can actually contribute myself as I learn a bit more !! =20 "Wesley Vogel" wrote: =20 Trevor, =20 See David Candy's post. I mentioned that I couldn't read hex, he = can. =20 Glad to hear that you got it sorted out. =20 BTW, I'm still deciphering David's post. :-) And working on 49 = other things. =20 --=20 Hope this helps. Let us know. Wes =20 In news Trevor L. hunted and pecked: Zulu and Wes, Thanks to you both Zulu, Yes, I will set the shortcut key as you suggested. I will try different keys, including Function keys - sounds good. Wes, I have yet to try your suggestions for the Registry, but am looking forward to it. BTW, I have managed to assign the key I used before to the new program. Whether this is the only way or not or whetehr it will continue to work, I don't know, but here is what I did. I re-created the old Shortcut (it had been deleted) and enetered = the old shortcut key. I tested it and it worked (referring to the old program). I then changed the key in that shortcut to "none" and = tried the shortcut key again - it did nothing (as one would hope). I = then allocated the key to the new program, tried it, and it worked !! I still have the old shortcut with key set to "none", but that's OK = - I just moved it a general folder with other shortcuts - not the desktop, which I don't want cluttered. I don't know whether this is worth posting anywhere, as the KB article I read (can't remember the number) said keys cannot be reallocated, as did you , Wes. Many thanks "Trevor L." wrote: Wes, I am disappointed that I can't reassign a shortcut key to another program. As I say, there are only so many combinations one can use before you run out of keys - 26 alpha, 10 numeric (and perhaps the 12 Function keys although I have ever tried these, so I don't = know). I have already deleted the shortcut to the Nero Help Manual, but before I did, I made sure that the shortcut key was set to = "(none)". Thanks for the info. as to how to find what key is assigned to a particular shortcut, but since changing it to "(none)" and = deleting it makes no difference, it sort of doesn't help too much. Do you know where the info. is stored as to what shortcut key = opens what program? Because the info. is retained after the shortcut itself is = deleted, I would assume that the info. must be stored in the Registry. But = I searched the registry for the value "BurningRom" (as the name of = the program opened by the shortcut key is "C:\Program Files\Ahead\Nero\NeroBurningRom_Eng.pdf"). But no entry that I = found seemed to contain any info. about shortcut key values. If I could edit the registry to remove/change shortcut key assignments, that would solve the problem. Many thanks "Wesley Vogel" wrote: Once you assign a shortcut key combination for a specific = program, you will not be able to use that key combination with other programs. Find the Nero Help Manual or the shortcut to same. Delete the shortcut, if it exists. Follow the instructions below if no shortcut. If you forget the key combination for your shortcut, you can = follow steps 2 through 3 and review your shortcut keys. 2. Locate the program file (.exe) or the program's shortcut icon. Right-click the program file or shortcut, and then click = Properties. 3. Click the Program tab for an MS-DOS program or the Shortcut = tab for a Windows program. -- Hope this helps. Let us know. Wes In , Trevor L. hunted and pecked: I used to have a Shortcut Ctl-Alt-R which opened a User manual (actually for Nero). I no longer want to do this as I am fairly used to Nero now and can open it directly when I want to, so I changed the key to (none). I later decided to re-use Ctl-Alt-R to invoke a program which = will restart the PC. (I changed the setting in this program to use = this sequence.) But I find that using Ctl-Alt-R still invokes the User manual. There was some info. on a Microsoft KB document re this problem, but I can't get it to work. I made sure that the old Shortcut = had (none), then deleted it. As there are limited letters to use with Ctl-Alt, the ability to reuse them is important. Can anyone help? However, the Ctl-Alt-R sequence still opend the Help Manual. =20 |
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=E2=82=AC1=3D A$1.6657 --=20 ---------------------------------------------------------- http://www.uscricket.com "David Candy" . wrote in message = ... http://www.microsoft.com/globaldev/o...downloads.mspx is a upgraded calculator with lots of conversions, incl to units I've = not heard off. It has three modes - normal, scientific (both look same = as old one), and conversions. (I metre =3D 4 keub or 1 metre =3D 0.333 = shaku). Cask wine is big in Australia. It's normally sold in 0.002 kwian = containers. It also does currency conversions. But only supports auto updating of = rates for the Euro. --=20 ---------------------------------------------------------- http://www.uscricket.com "Trevor L." wrote in message = ... Wes, Hi again, =20 Yes, David's post does take a bit of deciphering ! =20 As for reading hex, the Standard Calculator will allow you to convert. = For=20 Hex to Dec, change to Scientific view (from the View menu entry), = click on=20 Hex, enter a number in Hex, then click on Dec to convert (and vice = versa for=20 Dec to Hex). =20 Good luck with the 49 other things. It is great to have people such as = you.=20 Sometimes I can actually contribute myself as I learn a bit more !! =20 "Wesley Vogel" wrote: =20 Trevor, =20 See David Candy's post. I mentioned that I couldn't read hex, he = can. =20 Glad to hear that you got it sorted out. =20 BTW, I'm still deciphering David's post. :-) And working on 49 = other things. =20 --=20 Hope this helps. Let us know. Wes =20 In news Trevor L. hunted and pecked: Zulu and Wes, Thanks to you both Zulu, Yes, I will set the shortcut key as you suggested. I will try different keys, including Function keys - sounds good. Wes, I have yet to try your suggestions for the Registry, but am looking forward to it. BTW, I have managed to assign the key I used before to the new program. Whether this is the only way or not or whetehr it will continue to work, I don't know, but here is what I did. I re-created the old Shortcut (it had been deleted) and enetered = the old shortcut key. I tested it and it worked (referring to the old program). I then changed the key in that shortcut to "none" and = tried the shortcut key again - it did nothing (as one would hope). I = then allocated the key to the new program, tried it, and it worked !! I still have the old shortcut with key set to "none", but that's OK = - I just moved it a general folder with other shortcuts - not the desktop, which I don't want cluttered. I don't know whether this is worth posting anywhere, as the KB article I read (can't remember the number) said keys cannot be reallocated, as did you , Wes. Many thanks "Trevor L." wrote: Wes, I am disappointed that I can't reassign a shortcut key to another program. As I say, there are only so many combinations one can use before you run out of keys - 26 alpha, 10 numeric (and perhaps the 12 Function keys although I have ever tried these, so I don't = know). I have already deleted the shortcut to the Nero Help Manual, but before I did, I made sure that the shortcut key was set to = "(none)". Thanks for the info. as to how to find what key is assigned to a particular shortcut, but since changing it to "(none)" and = deleting it makes no difference, it sort of doesn't help too much. Do you know where the info. is stored as to what shortcut key = opens what program? Because the info. is retained after the shortcut itself is = deleted, I would assume that the info. must be stored in the Registry. But = I searched the registry for the value "BurningRom" (as the name of = the program opened by the shortcut key is "C:\Program Files\Ahead\Nero\NeroBurningRom_Eng.pdf"). But no entry that I = found seemed to contain any info. about shortcut key values. If I could edit the registry to remove/change shortcut key assignments, that would solve the problem. Many thanks "Wesley Vogel" wrote: Once you assign a shortcut key combination for a specific = program, you will not be able to use that key combination with other programs. Find the Nero Help Manual or the shortcut to same. Delete the shortcut, if it exists. Follow the instructions below if no shortcut. If you forget the key combination for your shortcut, you can = follow steps 2 through 3 and review your shortcut keys. 2. Locate the program file (.exe) or the program's shortcut icon. Right-click the program file or shortcut, and then click = Properties. 3. Click the Program tab for an MS-DOS program or the Shortcut = tab for a Windows program. -- Hope this helps. Let us know. Wes In , Trevor L. hunted and pecked: I used to have a Shortcut Ctl-Alt-R which opened a User manual (actually for Nero). I no longer want to do this as I am fairly used to Nero now and can open it directly when I want to, so I changed the key to (none). I later decided to re-use Ctl-Alt-R to invoke a program which = will restart the PC. (I changed the setting in this program to use = this sequence.) But I find that using Ctl-Alt-R still invokes the User manual. There was some info. on a Microsoft KB document re this problem, but I can't get it to work. I made sure that the old Shortcut = had (none), then deleted it. As there are limited letters to use with Ctl-Alt, the ability to reuse them is important. Can anyone help? However, the Ctl-Alt-R sequence still opend the Help Manual. =20 |
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