Re^2: The most useless key on my keyboard is:

The "windows key" just sends the code for control-escape. So, whether it's actually on your keyboard or not, you arguably could still map it to something useful...

-Scott

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Re^3: The most useless key on my keyboard is: by eric256 (Parson) on Nov 16, 2005 at 22:18 UTC
Are you sure? Ctrl-Esc-R does nothing for me, but win-r opens the run menu. ___________ Eric Hodges $_='y==QAe=e?y==QG@>@?iy==QVq?f?=a@iG?=QQ=Q?9'; s/(.)/ord($1)-50/eigs;tr/6123457/- \/\|\\\_\n/;print;	[reply]
Re^4: The most useless key on my keyboard is: by 5mi11er (Deacon) on Nov 16, 2005 at 23:07 UTC
Evidently not. If control-escape is all you hit, then it functions exactly like just hitting the windows key. As a "modifier", I'm not sure what's going on. I'd originally pulled that knowledge from a years ago memory when the key first appeared... -Scott	[reply]