Re: ping

you are a *legend*! :-D

That's the only thing I've found that works. It seems to somehow 
intercept key combos before windows/explorer does, so it actually WORKS! 
And just passing parameters to VirtuaWin works great as well, and takes 
care of it all.

Thank you so much for your help and time.

Cheers,
Michael


On 12/05/2010 1:30 PM, Red wrote:
> autohotkey can over ride it with a script and do all kinds of crazy things
> while you're at it.
>
> Let me know if that sounds cool or not.  I can help you out after finals.
>
> On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 11:25 PM, Michael Sallaway<
> michael-litestep-8jsF3aZKAbVWk0Htik3J/[email protected]>  wrote:
>
>    
>> 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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