I disable that desktop clean up thing, I clean mine myself. What I've been
told, that's kind of annoying anyway so I've always disabled it as long as
I've had it.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ham Steve" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Friday, September 29, 2006 5:48 PM
Subject: Re: off topic: shortcut hot keys occasionally disappearing
> Well, there is one thing that does affect your desktop. There is, in XP,
> a
> desktop cleanup wizzard. It is only supposed to work if it is enabled,
> and
> only on infrequently used items. It puts them in an unused desktop
> folder,
> if memory serves. I doubt that has affected those shortcuts though.
>
> My guess is something caused a system restore. I just went to Detroit to
> service a guy's PC because he lost his Outlook shortcut.
>
> Steve, K8SP
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "T Behler" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Friday, September 29, 2006 5:37 PM
> Subject: Re: off topic: shortcut hot keys occasionally disappearing
>
>
>> Oooooopppssss: I should have clarified the echo-link hot key! HI!
>> HI!
>> HI!
>>
>> This is interesting. ... The only thing I can think of is that the
>> software
>> package that I use on these computers comes from the University, and I
>> wonder if they have some sort of an automatic function in their software
>> that "cleans out the system" occasionally and messes with my hot keys.
>>
>> In answer to Steve's question, the dialogue box is always blank--says
>> "hot
>> key none".
>>
>> Like you, I can't think of a logical explanation other than something
>> like
>> this.
>>
>> 73 from Tom Behler: KB8TYJ
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Steve Dresser" <[log in to unmask]>
>> To: <[log in to unmask]>
>> Sent: Thursday, September 28, 2006 10:09 PM
>> Subject: Re: off topic: shortcut hot keys occasionally disappearing
>>
>>
>>> Tom,
>>>
>>> Are you doing system restores that might bring back icons created
>>> before you assigned the shortcut keys? When you recreate the
>>> sequence, is the entry in the dialog blank? I can't think of any
>>> other reason why the key assignments would disappear, unless you've
>>> got something on your system that plays around with hot key
>>> assignments, and I've never heard of that happening.
>>>
>>> By the way, for the on-topic police, the hotkey that disappears is
>>> for EchoLink, right?
>>>
>>> Steve
>>>
>>> On Thursday 9/28/06 21:31 T Behler wrote:
>>> >Hi, all.
>>> >
>>> >This is really a strange question, and probably somewhat "off topic",
>>> >but
>> I
>>> >guess the problem could just as easily happen with ham radio computer
>>> >applications.
>>> >
>>> >I have noticed that, every so often, I loose a Jaws short-cut key
>> sequence
>>> >for a program in Windows XP, such as Microsoft Word, or Outlook
>>> >Express.
>>> >
>>> >The problem is pretty easy to fix, since I just go in and re-create the
>>> >shortcut key sequence again, but I'm wondering if anyone knows why this
>>> >happens occasionally.
>>> >
>>> >For the record, I'm using Jaws 7.0 with Windows XP.
>>> >
>>> >Just curious. ...
>>> >
>>> >Thanks, and 73 from Tom Behler: KB8TYJ
>>>
>>
>
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