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kkleinfelter

Good suggestions. Thanks! Relocating ESC is an interesting approach, but rewiring my brain to do that may be impossible at this point. I've been whacking the upper-leftmost key for ESC since 1980. I don't think I can rewire those neurons! Entirely disabling the lock feature could get me fired for vi...

kkleinfelter

I need to block/disable a special key on my HP Zbook laptop. There's a key with an icon that looks like |❏| . When I press it, Windows behaves as if I'd pressed Winkey-L. i.e. It locks the workstation. The problem is, that's a smaller-sized key immediately next to a smaller-sized ESC key, so I often...

kkleinfelter

Using the Hotkey statement, how do I define a hotkey for CapsLock and Shift and e? I want to use the Hotkey statement, instead of double-colon, because I need to define it conditionally. Both of the following fail with a "not a valid key name." Hotkey, CapsLock & +e, CloseAllExplorer Hotkey, CapsLoc...

kkleinfelter

Ah. I just looked at the main article. The additional steps you reference are in the dialog below the article.

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Get-AppxPackage -AllUsers -PackageTypeFilter Bundle *xboxgaming* | Remove-AppxPackage -AllUsers

is sufficient to get Windows to stop with the HDR hotkey. Thank you!

kkleinfelter

Thank you to the pointers. I have already disabled Game Bar and HDR. Pressing Alt-Winkey-B re-enables it. Shopping for a non-HDR monitor isn't an option because... I'm using a laptop.

kkleinfelter

They are out-and-out over the top with Alt-Winkey-B. Using the Keyboard Manager of PowerToys, one can remap most shortcuts, but not that one.

This looks like a challenge.

kkleinfelter

Oh man! They are really pushy about that particular hotkey. \HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced\DisabledHotkeys can disable other Windows hotkeys involving Winkey, but not Winkey-B and Alt-Winkey-B.

kkleinfelter

I was there first, then Windows claimed it. I'm not giving it up. I'll write my own keyboard driver if I must. That being said, I've noticed that my AHK double-colon definition for alt-winkey-b is getting executed. The problem is that Windows is also doing its HDR mode switch, which involves a super...

kkleinfelter

How can I override the Windows 11 shortcut for enabling/disabling HDR -- Alt-Winkey-B? Back in the day of Win 10, I defined a bunch of personal shortcut keys, using Alt-Winkey. Then Win 11 added a bunch of Game Bar shortcuts which also use Alt-Winkey. I've disabled the Game Bar, which gave me back s...

kkleinfelter

How odd! This is only a problem with Chrome as my default PDF reader, but not with Edge. i.e. I can tell Windows 11 that I want Edge to open my PDF files, and Windows selects a nice "PDF" icon for PDF files, not the Edge icon or the Chrome icon. But if I make Chrome the PDF opener, I get the same ic...

kkleinfelter

I there a (good) way to use Autohotkey to make windows show an icon for my PDF files that is not the same as my browser icon, when the browser is the default PDF opener? e.g. I use Chrome to render PDF files, so Windows shows the Chrome icon for all my PDF files. I want an icon that indicates the fi...

kkleinfelter

It appears that if a timer fires while a FileAppend is writing to a file on a network shared folder, the I/O does not complete. How can I ensure the file write gets resumed and run to completion? Do I need to wrap all my calls to FileAppend with "Critical On" and "Critical Off"? I don't know for CER...

kkleinfelter

This may have changed with (maybe a recent release of) Windows 10. I dunno how consistent it is, but calling

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WinGetTitle,ID,A

returns "Windows Default Lock Screen" into ID for me.

kkleinfelter

I need to automate an IE window hosted inside a JExplorer process. wbGet doesn't find it. How can I get a wb object for an IE hosted inside a JExplorer? To provide some background, we have lots of Java Web Start applications. Java executes them in a JP2Launcher.exe process. When these Java apps need...

kkleinfelter

My solution was to combine WinGetPosEx and ClientToWin. ClientToWin addressed the bulk of the big black strip, and WinGetPosEx addressed the remaining sliver. As a reminder, my complaint was NOT about the stripe itself, but about being able to identify an 'accurate' XY coordinate within the screensh...

kkleinfelter

OK. I think I've got a similar, but not identical problem. I understand the Aero changes to the title bar and the width of the shadow around the window accounts for the narrow black stripe, but when I turn off the Address Bar in IE, I get a *big* black stripe at the bottom of the window. The narrow ...

kkleinfelter

When I take a screenshot of a File Explorer window using GDI+, the title bar come out with a black background, although the icons are rendered properly. My real File Explorer window has white background. The status bar and the scroll bar also come out black. Attached image shows the title bar. The b...

kkleinfelter

I gave up on directly getting click coordinates relative to the *clicked* (not the active) window. My 'solution' was to get the coordinates in *screen* mode, get the origin of the window the mouse is over (in screen mode), and subtract the window origin from the mouse position. i.e. I calculated the...

kkleinfelter

No, that still isn't working. I keep getting negative values for X or Y. I'm clearly not getting the X/Y coordinate relative to the clicked window because I'm clicking in the window and I'm getting things like -400

kkleinfelter

Well, the best I can come up with is the following. Is there a better way? Is there a drawback to my method I should be aware of?

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    CoordMode, Mouse, Window
    MouseGetPos, mx, my, buttonHwnd
    WinActivate, ahk_id %buttonHwnd%
    MouseGetPos, mx, my, buttonHwnd

Search found 32 matches

Re: Blocking the Special Lock Key

Blocking the Special Lock Key

Hotkey, CapsLock & Shift & e

Re: Override HDR Shortcut Alt-Winkey-B?

Re: Override HDR Shortcut Alt-Winkey-B?

Re: Override HDR Shortcut Alt-Winkey-B?

Re: Override HDR Shortcut Alt-Winkey-B?

Re: Override HDR Shortcut Alt-Winkey-B?

Override HDR Shortcut Alt-Winkey-B?

Re: Unique Icon for PDF Files

Unique Icon for PDF Files

Timer Causes Dropped File Output

Re: Detect when Windows screen lock/password is active

Automating IE Inside a JExplorer

Re: hWnd_to_hBmp() : Capture full screen, Window, Control or user defined area of these

Re: hWnd_to_hBmp() : Capture full screen, Window, Control or user defined area of these

Dark Band Around GDI+ Screenshot

Re: Process Left-click AFTER the Active Window Change

Re: Process Left-click AFTER the Active Window Change

Re: Process Left-click AFTER the Active Window Change