Keyboard shortcuts

[Eustace]

I had assigned keyboard shortcuts (Alt+Ctrl+[letter]) to some shortcuts
on the desktop, the Start menu, etc. and they worked OK. Then I decided
I wanted to have all these shortcuts in one file, so I would know what
shortcuts I have assigned. I thought that once I removed the keyboard
shortcut from a shortcut I would be able to use in on another shortcut,
but that does not seem to be the case. It seems that once you have
assigned a letter to a particular shortcut of a program that's it, you
can't remove it from that shortcut and assign it to another one. Or am I
wrong? And is there any way to find out which keyboard shortcut I have
assigned in the past? Are there at some key in the Register?

 

[Jon]

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I had assigned keyboard shortcuts (Alt+Ctrl+[letter]) to some shortcuts on
the desktop, the Start menu, etc. and they worked OK. Then I decided I
wanted to have all these shortcuts in one file, so I would know what
shortcuts I have assigned. I thought that once I removed the keyboard
shortcut from a shortcut I would be able to use in on another shortcut, but
that does not seem to be the case. It seems that once you have assigned a
letter to a particular shortcut of a program that's it, you can't remove it
from that shortcut and assign it to another one. Or am I wrong? And is
there any way to find out which keyboard shortcut I have assigned in the
past? Are there at some key in the Register?

If you can't assign the combination to another shortcut, then it probably
means you have a duplicate shortcut somewhere (either on the desktop or in
subfolders of your Start menu) that is still using that particular
combination. Unfortunately there's no easy way of finding duplicate
combinations, other than checking each shortcut individually.

 

[Ayush]

Replied to [Eustace]s message :
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I had assigned keyboard shortcuts (Alt+Ctrl+[letter]) to some shortcuts
on the desktop, the Start menu, etc. and they worked OK. Then I decided
I wanted to have all these shortcuts in one file, so I would know what
shortcuts I have assigned. I thought that once I removed the keyboard
shortcut from a shortcut I would be able to use in on another shortcut,
but that does not seem to be the case. It seems that once you have
assigned a letter to a particular shortcut of a program that's it, you
can't remove it from that shortcut and assign it to another one. Or am I
wrong? And is there any way to find out which keyboard shortcut I have
assigned in the past? Are there at some key in the Register?

After removing/changing the shortcut key, you have to Reboot the PC in order to assign
that shortcut key to another shortcut.

 

[Eustace]

Replied to [Eustace]s message :
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I had assigned keyboard shortcuts (Alt+Ctrl+[letter]) to some shortcuts
on the desktop, the Start menu, etc. and they worked OK. Then I decided
I wanted to have all these shortcuts in one file, so I would know what
shortcuts I have assigned. I thought that once I removed the keyboard
shortcut from a shortcut I would be able to use in on another shortcut,
but that does not seem to be the case. It seems that once you have
assigned a letter to a particular shortcut of a program that's it, you
can't remove it from that shortcut and assign it to another one. Or am I
wrong? And is there any way to find out which keyboard shortcut I have
assigned in the past? Are there at some key in the Register?

After removing/changing the shortcut key, you have to Reboot the PC in order to assign
that shortcut key to another shortcut.

Unfortunately, rebooting the PC has no effect. I removed all the
Alt-Ctrl shortcut key assignments and made sure none Alt-Ctrl-letter
combination worked, I rebooted, I reassigned some shortcuts and they
didn't worked. But there should be some place in the registry where the
assigned shortcuts are stored...

 

[Jon]

It's certainly worth mentioning that "Eustace" <[email protected]> had
previously written the following in message

Replied to [Eustace]s message :
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I had assigned keyboard shortcuts (Alt+Ctrl+[letter]) to some shortcuts
on the desktop, the Start menu, etc. and they worked OK. Then I decided
I wanted to have all these shortcuts in one file, so I would know what
shortcuts I have assigned. I thought that once I removed the keyboard
shortcut from a shortcut I would be able to use in on another shortcut,
but that does not seem to be the case. It seems that once you have
assigned a letter to a particular shortcut of a program that's it, you
can't remove it from that shortcut and assign it to another one. Or am I
wrong? And is there any way to find out which keyboard shortcut I have
assigned in the past? Are there at some key in the Register?

After removing/changing the shortcut key, you have to Reboot the PC in
order to assign that shortcut key to another shortcut.

Unfortunately, rebooting the PC has no effect. I removed all the Alt-Ctrl
shortcut key assignments and made sure none Alt-Ctrl-letter combination
worked, I rebooted, I reassigned some shortcuts and they didn't worked.
But there should be some place in the registry where the assigned
shortcuts are stored...

If you've put your new shortcuts into a new folder, as it sounds like, then
they won't work. They need to be positioned in either the start menu (or its
subfolders), or on your Desktop. Windows only checks in those places.