Hi Robert and all,

How to prevent this problem in the first place is, what I do is, I have 
a keyboard with an on off switch.

When I'm not using it, I turn the keyboard off, so the keys or a button 
will not do anything when pressed.

But you all will absolutely love this one, you'll get a great laugh from 
what I'm about to tell you!!!

One day, when I got home, I had some work to do on the computer. So, I 
pressed a key, because I bring mine out of sleep mode, and the computer 
would not turn on.

I was not, happy!

About 2 minutes later, thank God, the thought came to my mind, "check 
the on off switch."

And, of course, it was off!!!

You talk about feeling like an idiot, that was me!!!!

So you can all laugh over that one for a while, because I'm laughing 
right with you!

Then there is the time 25 years ago, when I had a floppy disk drive 
plugged into the computer. I turned on the computer, and it came on, but 
noghing happened! Then the thought came, take the floppy out of the 
floppy drive, and it booted right up to the desktop, so you all can have 
a good laugh over that one, too!

Harry

On 2/1/2023 5:42 PM, Mike Pietruk wrote:
> Robert
> The same kind of thing has happened to me in the past with keyboard
> shortcuts getting accidentally renamed with nonsense-type characters.
> And I was the guilty party.
>
> The thing to remember with shortcuts is that the name isn't the important
> thing; it is what is inside the shortcut that matters.
>
> The latest version of Brian Hartgen's Leasey 8 script package for Jaws has
> a neat new start menu for Windows.
> I'm going to explore if it is possible to add the recycle bin as one of
> the items in that start menu just in case.
>
> Also, keep in mind, if you accidentally delete a desktop shortcut, it ends
> up in the recycle bin from which it can be recovered.
>
> The trouble with the kind of shortcut your wife's dusting created is that
> initially you may not be able to figure what it stands for.
> But, of course, as in your case, it could have become obvious once you no
> longer seemed to have a recycle bin.
> You still had it; but under an unrecognizable way to get at it.
>
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