Re: Removing A Shortcut Key

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From: David Candy (.)
Date: 01/24/05 

Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2005 16:01:25 +1100

The hotkeys are built at every logon. Windows looks on all shortcuts and gets the keys out and registers them. 

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" JCO" <joliviero@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:n0%Id.9775$CI6.235@trnddc06...
> The problem is that the old exe was deleted before the new one could get a
> shortcut key assigned.  Therefore that option did not exist.  Problem has
> been resolved by rebooting.  I did not know that old shortcuts automatically
> resolve themselves after rebooting.  The shortcut has now been put on the
> new exe.
> Thanks anyway.
> 
> "Not Me" <nobody@nowhere.net> wrote in message
> news:OzgTtgbAFHA.2788@TK2MSFTNGP15.phx.gbl...
>> Delete the existing Shortcut; then create one to the new executable file.
>>                 Gene K
>>
>>   JCO wrote:
>> > I created a "Shortcut Key" to an icon (Ctrl + Alt + Q) to launch an
>> > application.  I now upgraded the application to the 2005 version.  I
> should
>> > of deleted the shortcut key first but I did not.  Now I can't create the
>> > same Shortcut Key to the new version because the computer thinks that it
>> > already exists.
>> >
>> > How can I get rid of the Shortcut Key, so that I can re-create it?
>> >
>> > Thanks
>> >
>> >
> 
>

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