Recent content by pmandrella

linney, I appreciate that you are trying to help me with this problem, but again: your questions don't make sense. Exlorer will never duplicate hotkey settings when duplicating a shortcut, because it knows what you already stated above: One hotkey may be assigned only once. And the hotkey...

One funny issue has been left which I am not able to resolve: Some time ago, I assigned an AltGr+I shortcut to the Internet Explorer icon on the desktop. This was possible with Windows XP and IE6. Recently I upgraded to IE7. Now, the AltGr+I shortcut is still active, but there is no more way...

Meanwhile, I noticed the the this my first approach does not handle well pressing a hotkey for a program which was already started. But Windows also does not handle that case very well. Depending on the program, it will either - bring in front the window of the already running program - run a...

Meanwhile, I have solved the problem by writing a little tool wich does the same job and has no hanging problems. It basically goes like this: #include <windows.h> int WINAPI WinMain( HINSTANCE hInstance, HINSTANCE hPrevInstance, LPSTR lpCmdLine, int nCmdShow) { MSG msg...

@lazybird What Windows language version do you use - English or other?

@linney Strange - your on-screen keyboard works different from mine - maybe a thing of different Windows language (I am a German user)? The hang time is always the same, independend of current program activity, and it does not cause any additional system load. The system load in task manager...

I tested with both XP and Vista. As soon as I have mouse-clicked Ctrl and Alt on the on-screen keyboard, all letter keys except of the windows predefined shortcuts disappear and cannot be clicked. What works is hitting Ctrl and Alt on the on-screen keyboard and then the letter key on the...

User-defined shortcut keys cannot be entered unsing the on-screen keyboard. Only system-defined shortcuts are available there.

@linney No. It is IMPOSSIBLE to re-assign a Windows shortcut key to a start menu or desktop link. Also, your question is obviously irrelevant regarding the problem discussed here. Double-assigning a shortcut key could not randomly cause a 20-seconds-hang of the Windows dekstop when pressing...

I have only five or six shortcuts enabled, so it seems not to be a matter of how many shortcuts you use. Also, my start menu and desktop are rather well organized compared to many others I have seen, so it also seems not to be a matter of how many program links the explorer has to handle. My...

@humbletech99 Do you really mean that the WHOLE MACHINE blocks, or only that the DESKTOP (i.e. the Explorer) blocks for 15-20 seconds? Will Ctrl+Alt+Delete work (maybe with 2-3 seconds delay) while the system ist "blocked"? If yes, then I have the same probleme here. And that's not a new...