I stand corrected. You are abselotely right. Shift – F10 works now. Don`t know why it did not work last time i tried. Maybe i landed directly in the desktop and hit Ctrl – Spacebar and then landed on a short cut icon.
Take care Terje Strømberg From: Jim Grimsby JR. Sent: Tuesday, January 03, 2012 1:45 AM To: Terje Strømberg Subject: Re: Right Clicking Blank spot on Desktop if shift+f10 doesn’t work for bringing up the context menu on your desktop you got a problem. this is a windows command and should work where ever context menus are available. so if you press control space and then shift+f10 the same thing should happen if you press control space and the applications key. find some strange new thing every day. from the start of the context menu shift+f10 has always worked to open it. never herd of a situation where it doesn’t. some thing very strange is going on there. Jim Grimsby JR. E-mail: Windows live messenger: [email protected] Twitter: jgrimsby Skype jim.grimsby From: Terje Strømberg Sent: Monday, January 02, 2012 3:47 PM To: Terje Strømberg Subject: Fw: Right Clicking Blank spot on Desktop In the first reply i wanted to reply to the list, but hit the reply to sender hot key. No problem i send ti send it to the list now. Shift – F10 does not work for right clicking on the desktop on my computer. The application key find a blank spot on the desktop after pressing Windows – M, then Ctrl – Spacebar. Re: Press Windows – M or Windows – D. You will hear “Desktop” and a name of a shortcut icon on your desktop. This mean you are on the desktop with the marker on this specific icon. To move the marker to a blank spot, press Ctrl – Spacebar. Now you press the “Application key” usally located two or three keys to the right of the spacebar. If not, you can use the FN key + one other key. In my case it is the FN and 3`rd key from the top right. Window Eyes will announce “Context menu”. From: Jim Grimsby JR. Sent: Monday, January 02, 2012 2:18 AM To: Terje Strømberg Subject: Re: Right Clicking Blank spot on Desktop The first thing of note is that the alternative to the application key is always shift+f10. You should also note that when you press control+space the item becomes unselected. You are not physically moved to a blank spot on the desktop as your instructions state below. What happens is the item simply becomes unselected and then when you open the context menu, because nothing is selected the context is for your desktop. Versus a selected folder or shortcut. Hope this helps. Jim Grimsby JR. E-mail: Windows live messenger: [email protected] Twitter: jgrimsby Skype jim.grimsby From: Terje Strømberg Sent: Sunday, January 01, 2012 7:59 AM To: Jim Grimsby JR. Subject: Re: Right Clicking Blank spot on Desktop Press Windows – M or Windows – D. You will hear “Desktop” and a name of a shortcut icon on your desktop. This mean you are on the desktop with the marker on this specific icon. To move the marker to a blank spot, press Ctrl – Spacebar. Now you press the “Application key” usally located two or three keys to the right of the spacebar. If not, you can use the FN key + one other key. In my case it is the FN and 3`rd key from the top right. Window Eyes will announce “Context menu”. Take care Terje Strømberg From: Jim Grimsby JR. Sent: Sunday, January 01, 2012 4:11 AM To: gw micro support list Subject: Re: Right Clicking Blank spot on Desktop hi, no no hot key as such but you can use pixel nathagation to move to a blank spot. or you could simply go to the desktop with windows d. now if something is selected press control space to unselect it and hit the context menu key applications or shift f10. hth Jim Grimsby JR. E-mail: Windows live messenger: [email protected] Twitter: jgrimsby Skype jim.grimsby From: RicksPlace Sent: Thursday, December 29, 2011 2:57 PM To: GW Micro Product Discussion Listserv Subject: Right Clicking Blank spot on DeskTop Is there a hot key to just right click some blank space on the DeskTop to bring up the properties so I can set some of them? I have Windows XP. I thought I read something on this some time ago but can't find it if I did. Rick USA If you reply to this message it will be delivered to the original sender only. If your reply would benefit others on the list and your message is related to GW Micro, then please consider sending your message to [email protected] so the entire list will receive it. GW-Info messages are archived at http://www.gwmicro.com/gwinfo. You can manage your list subscription at http://www.gwmicro.com/listserv.
