Create keyboard shortcut

[Stan Brown]

You cannot imagine how frustrating it is to read something like that.
I want to grab you by the shoulders, shake you, and yell, "Don't tell
me you tried various things! Tell me specifically what you tried!
And for heaven's sake don't just say 'nothing works'. What happened?
Did you get any error messages?" In troubleshooting, the details are
crucial, yet people routinely fail to provide them.

Sorry for ranting. I had been a long hard day. I stand by the
sentiment, but I could have expressed it more gently.

 

[Stan Brown]

Hotkeys apparently only work from the desktop (including the taskbar)
and the Start menu.

That is my understanding also.

This is the time to plug Autohotkey yet again:
www.autohotkey.com

Its hotkeys work *anywhere* (unless of course you choose to make them
context sensitive). It's one of the two or three most useful free
programs on the Internet, in my opinion, along with Irfanview and
TCC/LE.

 

[Hot Totty]

Sorry for ranting. I had been a long hard day. I stand by the
sentiment, but I could have expressed it more gently.

Expressing anything gently to a dummy isn't going to work. Try it!

 

[Char Jackson]

That is my understanding also.

This is the time to plug Autohotkey yet again:
www.autohotkey.com

Its hotkeys work *anywhere* (unless of course you choose to make them
context sensitive). It's one of the two or three most useful free
programs on the Internet, in my opinion, along with Irfanview and
TCC/LE.

Thanks, that's the 3rd party tool I was trying to think of earlier in
this thread.

As for the mini rant, I enjoyed it.

 

[Bob I]

That's a clue. It seems to indicate that the special properties of the
Desktop and the Start Menu include the ability for the OS to find and
parse shortcut keys, in contrast to the properties of ordinary folders.

IOW, it's by design. Sadly...

IIRC that's exactly the way it worked in Windows XP also.

 

[J. P. Gilliver (John)]

Char Jackson wrote: []

Hotkeys apparently only work from the desktop (including the taskbar)
and the Start menu.

Which is annoying if you want to use a hotkey instead of, not in
addition to, a clickable icon.

Yes, I can see that the desktop could silt up with unwanted icons.

Will shortcut keys work (I don't have the W7 key I was playing with any
more, to try) from a (shortcut in a) _subfolder_ on the desktop? If so,
that would _reduce_ the clutter to one extra icon, called "stuff" or
something like that.

 

[J. P. Gilliver (John)]

That is my understanding also.

This is the time to plug Autohotkey yet again:
www.autohotkey.com

Its hotkeys work *anywhere* (unless of course you choose to make them
context sensitive). It's one of the two or three most useful free
programs on the Internet, in my opinion, along with Irfanview and
TCC/LE.

What do you find you use a lot among the features of TCC/LE? (I agree
about IrfanView.)

 

[Stan Brown]

What do you find you use a lot among the features of TCC/LE? (I agree
about IrfanView.)

Oh golly, what don't I? I have a batch file that checks dates and
times of files on my hard drive and a USB stick and synchronizes
them. (The folder structures are different.) I have another that
checks my list of reminders and tells me any that are coming up
within the next seven days. And so forth.

Most recently, for a discussion over in
comp.infosystems.www.authoring.html, I needed to know how many GIF
files in a folder were under 4 KB. With Windows I'd have to count
them; the TCC/LE range specification on a dir command does the
counting for me.