Back in December of 2001, I had changed from Free Agent to paid Agent,
and one difference was that the Insert key now toggled from Insert
(which was the only setting before) to Overlay.
This was driving me crazy.
Somehow I found out about auorfa.modified, and after reading a related
post, I asked there, and Peter Giese and Randy aka
Coi...@MindSpring.com were good enough to show me how to disable the
Insert Key.
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!searchin/alt.usenet.offline-reader.forte-agent.modified/disable$20insert$20key/alt.usenet.offline-reader.forte-agent.modified/HRIO-7dAXWA/-Jg4CrzoRq8J
It involves Resource Hacker, and the modification of Accelerators.
14 years later, even though I paid for version 6, I'm still using
version 1.93, and I planned to stay that way, except it's not working
all of a sudden (after working in Vista for 3 weeks).
So, like I did 5 years ago, I tried to use Resource Hacker to hack
version six. But it has no Accelerators!! apparently.
So as Randy suggested 14 years ago, I found a key remapper, called Key
Remapper and it's just about perfect (except it costs $24).
But it does allow the Insert Key to act like Left-Cntl-Insert (which
does nothing in Agent afaict. ) And only when using Agent. So
that's good.
It quickly occurred to me that since my favorite mulitmedia keyboard
is tied up connected to the broken computer, maybe I coudl assign keys
to volume up and down, and it had those assignments, even for
keyboards without those keys. I used the numeric keyboard / and *,
and I excluded Calc. I never use those keys, even when using Calc,
so that's good, and it works. Then I thought... How about assigning
Pause to Mute, except when using Cmd or TCC/LE. AFAIK, Pause/Break
only works during startup, before Windows, and when in a dosbox, so
that's good.
Those are the 3 keys that I use most from multimedia keyboards. When
I used Win Media Player to play webradio, next track would change
stations, but now I use mostly RadioMaximus. Just learned that stop
and play would work with that, and maybe there are F keys I never use,
but that's for later.
FWIW, this is version 1.6. It's after midnight and the trial period
ends in 29 days. Maybe I can mow lawns for the money.