Harry:
I'm familiar with Autohotkey. I've been using it to autocorrect and do
other things for some time now.
I tried your suggestion, but it does not work for me on my Microsoft
"bells and whistles" keyboard with a Win Key. Are you sure about the
command RCtrl::Lwin. What works for me is RCtrl::#h, which calls up a
feature of the Autohotkey "autocorrect" file. If I remove the "h", I
get a message to the effect that a command is missing, and if I use
your suggestion above, I get the same message. Isn't the symbol # the
trigger for the Win key?
But more importantly, none of these commands work when I use the IBM
(Model M) keyboard. Remember that there is no Win key on the Model M.
So when one executes the Autohotkey command RCtrl::(whatever), one
is not going to get any sort of action. Would this not suggest that
what has to be edited is the Regedit file?
MWP
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On Tue, 23 Jun 2009, Harry Binswanger wrote:
Get the great macro program AutoHotkey. It's free here:
http://www.autohotkey.com/
Download and install it. After lauching it, you'll see an icon in your
Tray that looks like a white H on a green background. Right-click on it,
then choose "Edit This Script." That will bring up, in Notepad, the
current (default) script, a file ending in .AHK. To that script, add this
line at the bottom (or make it the only line in the script--your choice):
RCtrl::LWin
That will make your right Ctrl key function as the left Win key
(alternative assignments are your option).
To make it take effect, the first time, after you've saved the altered
.AHK script, right click on the AutoHotkey icon in the Tray and choose
"Reload This Script."
That should do it. Test it by doing RCtrl (held down) d. That should
minimize all open programs (the equivalent of Winkey+d. Doing that again
will make them all un-minimize.
Put a link to Autohotkey.exe into your Startup folder, and it will load
every time you boot up (let me know if you need help on how to do that).
Once you get comfortable with AutoHotkey, you'll want to use all sorts of
Macros with it--the simplest being things like:
F2::Send M.W. Poirer
F3::Send poirmw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
AutoHotkey is one killer-app.
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Speaking of the IBM Model M, I have such a keyboard. I recently retired
it because of its lack of a Windows key. Is there a way of remapping the
right Alt key on the Model M so as to convert it to a Win key? Or am I
just completely off the mark with this question? Of course, I don'td
claim to know much about computers.
M.W. Poirier
Harry Binswanger
hb@xxxxxxxxxxxx