Hotkey Died and Cannot Be Resurrected

raywood · Post by **raywood** » Mon Aug 03, 2015 6:30 pm

Hi -- I was using Winkey-V to open a new Everything window. In a moment of digital motor dysfunction (a/k/a fumblefingers), I hit some unknown magical key combination that seems to have screwed everything up. And I mean Everything. When I'm in Options > General > Keyboard > New window Hotkey, I get action if I hit Ctrl-something or Alt-something, but not if I hit Winkey-something.

I was previously using Shift-Esc (legacy of AvaFind) to open a new Everything window, but that died earlier and that, too, produces nothing in the Everything > New window Hotkey field.

I reinstalled Everything but the problem persists.

Post by **void** » Tue Aug 04, 2015 9:18 am

Do other Windows keys work? for example does Windows Key + E open Explorer?

Do you have a gaming keyboard that is in gaming mode (this would disable windows keys and shift esc)?
http://www.techspot.com/community/topic ... ed.192522/

raywood · Post by **raywood** » Tue Aug 04, 2015 7:39 pm

Yes, Winkey-E opens Explorer, and Winkey opens the Start Menu, as usual. So I don't get the "Key Disabled" message mentioned in that other post you've pointed to. It's not a gaming laptop (not very powerful); I don't see any gaming options in Control Panel > Keyboard, and "gaming" does not appear in the User's Manual. (I'm using Windows 7 x64.) I don't have a WinLock button. I also don't have the Scancode Map registry entry mentioned in some of those comments.

Post by **therube** » Tue Aug 04, 2015 8:05 pm

What OS?

Open Everything.ini (you can use Everything to find it

) in a file viewer/text editor & see if the wanted key value shows correctly:

> file_new_search_window_keys=2134

(I believe that's what it should be.)

raywood · Post by **raywood** » Wed Aug 05, 2015 6:01 pm

That value was 334. I changed it to 2134, saved, and then killed and restarted Everything. Tools > Options > General > Keyboard > Shortcuts for File | New Search Window Command displays Win+V. So that seems like a success. But I can't get it to appear in the New Window Hotkey box, and Win-V does not actually call up Everything.

For the moment, I'm faking it with Everything pinned to the Taskbar. A poor second-best. But I appreciate getting me that far, at least.

P.S. I can also use Shift-Esc as the hotkey. That's what AvaFind used.

Post by **void** » Fri Aug 07, 2015 8:05 am

With the ini modification that therube mentioned what is displayed in the debug console when you run Everything in debug mode?

You should see something like the following line:

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RegisterHotKey(): GetLastError(): 123

raywood · Post by **raywood** » Sat Aug 08, 2015 4:20 pm

I must be doing it wrong. Here's what I got when I did that:

uh ... not sure how to add an image. But I didn't get that.

Post by **void** » Tue Aug 11, 2015 5:42 am

If there is no message that means one of two things:
1). The Hotkey registration was successful (unlikely).
2). The Hotkey is already registered by another app (most likely).

Any idea what other app might be also registering Hotkeys?

Maybe Ethervane ActiveHotkeys (freeware) to list current Hotkeys can help:
http://www.donationcoder.com/forum/inde ... ic=18189.0

or Hotkey Commander to list current Hotkeys:
http://hkcmdr.anymania.com/index.html

or AutoHotkey to override existing Hotkeys:
http://www.autohotkey.com/

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