Windows key shortcuts

When you go to start Explorer right click on Explorer instead of left clicking. This will bring up a sub-menu. Click on properties. Click on the "Shortcut" tab. In the text box "Start in" you will probably see some thing like %HOMEDRIVE%%HOMEPATH% Replace every thing in the "Start in" text box with C:\\ Windows keeps a "Properties" dialog for every program and the same technique described above can be used to control how other programs start.

Howard

*.*.Windows.own.shortcut.keys.such.as.Win-*-E+open.source+use.the.macro.recorder+and.I.mean.any+Download+CapsLock.key+write-a-*-*-*-macro-by-hand+make-any-key-*-*-*-*-*-a-modifier+Forum

Amen.

Try this: /e,/root,C:\\ Best regards, Spehro Pefhany

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When I go to start Explorer I type Windows+E. There is no shortcut to right-click.

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Why did you copy a whole cached link when it appears to be nearly identical to

?

In any case, I'd rather not have to use a scripting program which probably takes up several megabytes of memory and isn't very well written. If the shortcut command is stored somewhere in the registry, for example, that would be easy...

Tim

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I pull the tops off all of my "Windows" keys and a couple of other extraneous gingerbread keys because I find them annoying as hell, especially while playing MAME games. ;-)

Cheers! Rich

That's the way I like to bookmark things. When a page goes 404 or a server goes 500, I can often easily find similar content again by feeding the search terms back into Google.

It IS identical; I pointed to items I thought were significant. One of the items I highlighted was EXACTLY the problem you are encountering.

Fair enough. I use the app and I have a dozen commonly-used things I no longer have to type out. I find that **a keyboard macro program** is like crack: once you start using it, it's a from-my-cold-dead-hands thing.

545kB

I have found 1 minor bug: (It's actually the fault of my favorite old copy of Mozilla) When using Ctrl-Alt-key, sometimes the leading character is omitted

Immediately doing a Ctrl-Z and re-executing the macro always gets me what I wanted. The only real annoyance is the DING that accompanies the error.

(Assigning browser-specific strings to Ctrl-Alt-Win-key

--which is actually easier to manipulate--end-runs the problem.)

...and the AutoHotKey forum is AWESOME.

Yes, I understood the question and previously sought the answer to it myself. I showed you the best solution I found.

Perhaps you should post the question to a group with **microsoft** in its name.

Because there doesn't seem to be an easy way to modify the existing Windows Logo key + E shortcut you could use the Windows Logo key and another key to create your own shortcut to start explorer in a folder of your choice. Windows doesn't provide the capability to create a shortcut using the Windows logo key. But a free ware program called WinKey does. See

y.shtml to obtain a copy of Winkey.

To create a shortcut start Winkey and click on "Add". In the "Shortcut Properties" dialog click on the arrow on the right side of the "Shortcut Key" drop down list box. You will see a list of key stroke combination you can. For this example I suggest using Windows Key + X. Next in the "Command" text box enter C:\\Windows \\explorer.exe Next in the "Parameters" text box enter /e,root,C:\\ This is the same sequence Sphero recommended. Finally click on "OK"

Here is a list of shortcuts "Windows uses and can not be used when creating user defined shortcuts. =95 Windows Logo (Display or hide the Start menu) =95 Windows Logo+BREAK (Display the System Properties dialog box) =95 Windows Logo+D (Display the desktop) =95 Windows Logo+M (Minimize all of the windows) =95 Windows Logo+SHIFT+M (Restore the minimized windows) =95 Windows Logo+E (Open My Computer) =95 Windows Logo+F (Search for a file or a folder) =95 CTRL+Windows Logo+F (Search for computers) =95 Windows Logo+F1 (Display Windows Help) =95 Windows Logo+ L (Lock the keyboard) =95 Windows Logo+R (Open the Run dialog box) =95 Windows Logo+U (Open Utility Manager)

Howard

Install linux, then all your problems will go away

Along with your sense of humor, and any freinds you bore to death, while preaching from the Linux pulpit.

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So I downloaded it, and it seems to do what it promises, at least as far as simple key binds. Haven't tried any of the scripting, but it looks powerful, although key-triggered (why not put that into a command line environment? Oh, but that would be another program, and should've been incorporated into CMD as-is...sigh...).

One question, can I hide the systray icon?

Tim

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Tim Williams wrote:

I see withdrawal pains in your future when using others' computers

--or maybe a 12-step program. 8-)

Hmmm. I don't have that many that it bugs me. Like I said, they have a GREAT forum. Google missed this one, but Yahoo picked it up:

Top hit, at that--and the 1st response nailed it.