Thanks for the great tip Mark. I'd been looking for a way around this
problem for a year or so and now I've got it.

One note of caution though for those who haven't tried it yet. Once you've
added a  shortcut (or more than one) to the Hotkeys folder, the hotkey does
not work until you've restarted your system.

Good stuff. It sure cleaned up my desktop of a lot of icons.

Larry Stewart
Ottawa, Canada

----- Original Message -----
From: "Mark Rode" <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: [PCSOFT] Shortcut Keys


> A shortcut with a hotkey, must be located directly off the START menu.
This
> is true for all versions of windows. You must be able to see the shortcut
> when you press START, or you must be able to see the folder where it
lives.
> I always put a folder directly off the START menu and call it Hotkeys.
Then
> I put all my hotkey shortcuts in that folder.
>
> Rode
> The NOSPIN Group
>
> > >    When I assign a shortcut key, like ctrl-alt-v, to a shortcut, it
> >doesn't work.  When I click on "properties" for the shortcut,  the key
> >assignment is still there, but nothing happens when I hit ctrl-alt-v.
> >

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