Win key shortcut to switch to MLO not working (and now working)

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Richard Collings

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Mar 19, 2021, 1:17:39 PM3/19/21
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Hi all

 

Have just finally upgraded myself to Windows 10 and installed the latest version of MLO onto the system.

 

As with all these things, I have immediately hit what appears to be a problem – the Win+Q hotkey to switch to MLO no longer appears to work.   I use this all the time!

 

This is annoying.    I hit this problem with another program that also uses a Win + <key> combination and found that Win+Y worked  (and also works for MLO if I use that)

 

But I can’t find another key that works  - most are assigned to some Windows function (going through them all proved quite illumating!)

 

Ha! 

 

As I was writing this,  I realized I hadn’t tried the punctuation keys and have just found that Win + ‘  does work.

 

Yay!

 

So I thought I would share this anyway as somebody might find it useful

 

But also ask about some keys that don’t appear to do anything in Windows but which don’t work with MLO either.  Does anybody know what they do:

  • Win+B
  • Win+J
  • Win+O
  • Win+Z

 

Richard (now on the latest version of MLO for the first time in many years!)

Richard Collings

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Mar 19, 2021, 1:26:16 PM3/19/21
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Ha!    Just found this website

 

https://defkey.com/

 

which seems to have documented a lot of hotkey shortcuts.

 

Turns out Win+B switches focus to the System Tray but Win+Z doesn’t appear to be assigned to anything but I can’t get it to work with MLO either.

 

Any thoughts would be welcome

 

Richard

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Joel

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May 12, 2021, 3:43:06 AM5/12/21
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I've used Win + `  (left side of keyboard, under ESC, same key as ~)
Used this key combo since as long as I can remember w/o issue.  Works well for me because it's left hand one-handed and actually easy by feel, not just looking.
Try it out.
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