Re: ping

Yeah, Win 7 is a bit nicer -- although there's one thing I *hate* about 
it, and figured I'd ask you guys, since someone might know?

How on earth can I disable the WIN key and up/down/left/right shortcuts? 
My problem is thus: I want to use VirtuaWin shortcuts -- WIN+left to 
move a VWM left, etc. However, they're the shortcuts used by Aero 
windowing stuff in Win7 -- win+left will resize the window to take up 
the left half, win+up maximizes, etc. "No worries", I thought -- disable 
the Aero themes. However, when I try to register the hotkeys with 
VirtuaWin, it still says "hotkey in use" or something to that effect 
(even though they don't do anything anymore). I've then tried using any 
different shell (since I thought it might be the explorer shell that's 
registering it) -- nope, no luck, even though the key combo doesn't do 
anything, virtuawin reports a problem trying to register it.

I've also tried the "Disable WIN+<key> shortcuts" registry hack that's 
floating around (to disable things like WIN+E, WIN+R), doesn't affect 
it, and also tried the "remapping" programs to remap or disable the key 
-- which disables the key completely, so no luck there. :-)

It's Win7 only, as I was using the exact same setup in WinXP fine.

Any suggestions?

Cheers,
Michael



On 12/05/2010 1:10 PM, Elliot Nesterman wrote:
> It is sad. It's such a good interface. The lack of a stable 64 bit 
> version is why I'm not using it anymore. I use bb4win on my x64 
> machines. Works a charm, skinnable, also designed after NextStep.
> I'm not any kind of coder, but if I were updating LS to 64 bits would 
> be a fun project.
> I suspect when I eventually move to Win7 I'll forgo an alternative 
> shell all together. I hear generally good things about the interface.
>
> Kevin Brew wrote:
>> Wow, that's pretty sad. I hadn't even realized I was still subscribed 
>> to the lsml from this address.
>>
>> I have to say that most of the reasons I began to use LS don't exist 
>> anymore, but it still has quite a bit of utility. I still have xp on 
>> one of my computers, and six months ago I got seriously sick of 
>> explorer, and just happened to trip over the folder containing all of 
>> the loose-screws stuff. Now I have an entire interface built into a 
>> 20x200px space again. Whether it's being actively worked on or not, 
>> it's stable, it works, and it does what it's supposed to.
>>
>> But, it's definitely sad to see how small the community has gotten. 
>> That was always the best part of it, arguments and all. Not many 
>> things will get me to do data entry for days and days, but 
>> apparently, this bunch was enough.
>>
>>      --Kevin Brew (cypress)
>>
>> On May 11, 2010, at 19:54, "Mike Edward Moras (e-sushi™)" 
>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> Oh well, back in the days the "state of the step" was showing first 
>>> signs of death... but I didn't expect everything to fade away.
>>>
>>> Makes me wonder where all those skinners and themers have gone.
>>>
>>> On the other hand you're right: MS is so much more stable than back 
>>> in the original Win98 era. It's just... I miss my skins. ;)

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