Hi Larry,
I'm not sure where you specified the hot key, but, in my experience, they
work most consistently if the icons you use to define the hot keys reside on
the desktop.
Indeed, it is wise to check to see if the software the icons point to has
been updated recently and, at that time, if you gave permission for icons to
be placed on the desktop, perhaps they wre overwritten with fresh copies of
the icons, in which case your hot keys would be no longer defind, or perhaps
defined by the developer.
At any rate, as Netbat has suggested, it is a problem which usually can be
remedied by either redefining the hot key, or by deleting the icon, copying
a new one onto the desktop, and then editing its properties to redefine the
hot key.
As you can probably tell, I've been down this road before, and this is why I
don't use them myself, preferring, instead, to press Enter on desktop icons.
Hth,
Rod
-----Original Message-----
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Sent: Tuesday, August 16, 2016 12:16 PM
To: Chris Grabowski <[email protected]>; Window-Eyes Discussion List
<[email protected]>; net bat <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: My ctrl-alt shortcut combos are suddenly gone
Well Chris, up to now, I haven't really given this method any real
consideration, but it just might be worth trying to get used too.
My only problem with the windows key method comes with my wifi keyboard,
where I have no right side Windows key. Sure wish there was a way to remap
this lousy FN key, considering how useless it is proving to be.
Anyway, thanks for reminding us of this option.
On 8/16/2016 10:12 AM, Chris Grabowski via Talk wrote:
One could pin programs to the task bar in a specific order and then press
alt-1 through alt-0 to launch or switch to them.
To see the order of programs on your task bar, press windows-t and then
right arrow through.
Chris
-----Original Message-----
From: net bat [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Tuesday, August 16, 2016 10:56 AM
To: Chris Grabowski <[email protected]>; Window-Eyes Discussion
List <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: My ctrl-alt shortcut combos are suddenly gone
i think this is a windows thing. i get the same thing with windows 7
sometimes.
i can look at the properties of the non working icon and the shortcut
keys i have defined are still there but will not work. rebooting does
not bring them back. i have to go into the properties and delete the
shortcut. save the change then put the shortcut keys back then the
icon shortcut will start working again until the next time a few months
later.
-----Original Message-----
From: Chris Grabowski via Talk
Sent: Tuesday, August 16, 2016 7:22 AM
To: Larry Higgins ; Window-Eyes Discussion List
Subject: RE: My ctrl-alt shortcut combos are suddenly gone
Hi,
Did you shut the computer down and reboot it to see if they come back?
Chris
-----Original Message-----
From: Talk
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Sent: Tuesday, August 16, 2016 9:36 AM
To: Window-Eyes Discussion List <[email protected]>
Subject: My ctrl-alt shortcut combos are suddenly gone
Listers,
I know this might border on the off topic, but I'm quite certain that
most all of you use these kind of shortcut combos for easy access to
your favorite apps/programs, and when they don't work, you can feel a
bit lost and frustrated, as I do at the moment.
Does anyone have any ideas as to how I can go about getting mine back?
I got up this morning and when I tried loading IE, with ctrl-alt-i, it
didn't work. The same with my Thunderbird keys ctrl-alt-e.
All of my windows key shortcuts are working fine, it is just these
personal combo keys that are giving me trouble.
And yes, the ctrl-alt-w is working for Window-Eyes.
I did try redefining one of the shortcuts, but to no avail.
If anybody has any ideas they would certainly be appreciated. I just
hope I don't have to do something so drastic as a Windows restore, but
if that will work, guess I'll just have to bite one and do that. But
hope we can find a more immediate and softer solution.
Thanks,
Larry
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