Vista - Keyboard shortcut - anyone?

I need to change or create a keyboard shortcut for "minimize all windows". I have a program that won't accept the "windows key" as assign shortcut (win+M = minimizes all windows), so I need to either change the win+M to something else (anything except with the win key), or find a way to program a new keyboard shortcut. Bot ways will do the trick.

So does anyone know how to change or create a keyboard shortcut?

dudelidu;76607 Wrote:Pls see if 'How To Create Your Own WinKey Shortcuts In Vista'
(http://www.winvistaclub.com/t83.html) helps.


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Hello Dudelidu,

You can use the "Show Desktop" shortcut to toggle the opened windows to be minimized or not.

Show Desktop

Hope this helps,
Shawn

"dudelidu" <guest@xxxxxx-email.com> wrote in message
news:54823afde015996a917bbfcf88e00721@xxxxxx-gateway.com...The Windows key is used for system-wide keyboard shortcuts, that work
whatever program you are using. If you are assigning a keyboard shortcut
for use within an application, you should use (or have to use as you have
found out) one of the other enabling keys (or combination).

I usually use AltGr, as there is less chance of a clash with a shortcut that
already exists. AltGr (right Alt) is the same as pressing Ctrl + Alt
(left).

For making more complex shortcuts and macros, I use ShortKeys Lite. I use
pressing the key above TAB as the trigger, pressing it twice, as it is never
used for anything else. It works brilliantly. Like pressing ``d, gives me
the current timestamp, 10:53 02/08/2008.

http://www.shortkeys.com/lite.htm

ss.

I can't use the win key. That's the whole point. I need to assign another key (NOT the win key) to minimize all windows.

Nope. It MUST be a keyboard command. Cannot be a shortcut such as the show desktop shortcut.

Wow! A reply with very good potential! I installed the program but unfortunately I haven't been able to do exactly what I want. I'm able to program the shortcuts to insert text (i.e. insert my name when clicking ##D, which I only did as a test), but I can't figure out how to (or even if the program is able to) program a shortcut to do a command. Like I explained, I need to make a shortcut that minimizes all windows (same as the win+M does). Can this program do this? If yes, how?

If no, any other programs or procedures in Vista that can allow me to do so?

"dudelidu" <guest@xxxxxx-email.com> wrote in message
news:5494a3fa3a1f9c6c52e77714eb5e6da6@xxxxxx-gateway.com...Hmmn. I thought it would be able to do that, as it can type the WinKey in a
ShortKey, but having looked into it, it seems that it just types the key to
enable subsequent navigation of the Start Menu.

I have a Shortcut in my Start Menu all programs, tied to a keyboard
shortcut, that runs a .vbs file that changes a registry key to view hidden
files. I use this keyboard shortcut to toggle the visibility of hidden
files. I am not sure, but might be possible for you to do the same, if
VBScript allows control of the keyboard in that way.

Otherwise, there is another program that I know of like ShortKeys, that
/may/ be able to do what you want. I am not sure, as I have never tried it,
as I do not think it is free. There may be other macro programs that you
could search for as well.

www.activewords.com

ss.

"Synapse Syndrome" <synapse@xxxxxx> wrote in message
news:ucYc%23ZN9IHA.3476@xxxxxxI just did a quick Google search of the ActiveWords website, and it looks
like it can use the WinKey to do that with

<WINSTART>m</WINSTART>

It's just a pity that ActiveWords is not free, and the GUI looks a bit too
intrusive for my liking.

ss.

"Synapse Syndrome" <synapse@xxxxxx> wrote in message
news:ucYc%23ZN9IHA.3476@xxxxxx
I've just looked at SwapKeys, from the same people that made ShortKeys, and
it can do what you want. It's not free, but it is cheap.

http://www.swapkeys.com/

ss.