I asked this question before, but it was somewhat hidden into another post of mine, so perhaps it wasn't noticed.
The default hotkey in WDS 3.0 is Ctrl-Alt-M. In the previous version there was an option to redefine the hotkey. Are there any plans to re-instate that option? I've seen there's still a registry key called 'Hotkey'. If I only knew how to set it ;)
Thanks!
Hi Moorpipe1,
I must have missed this question on your last thread. Unfortunately, you can't reassign the hotkey in 3.0 beta 2. Fortunately, this is the right avenue to submit feedback. I'll let the dev team know that customers are already missing this feature.
Paul Nystrom - MSFT
The default hotkey definitely needs to be overrideable. Or at the very least it should be a Windows-Something key, not Ctrl-Alt-Something.
For instance, any developer using ReSharper has a very important Ctrl-Alt-M shortkey that is now lost. And on the other hand, the Windows-F shortcut would fit so nicely...
Regards,
Leo
Add my vote for a way to override the hotkey. The WDS 2.0 way was very usable; using Windows Key +S was my favorite.
Tim
Paul,
Any updates on the hotkey assignment? My latest request for network drives was so successful...request 1 day, add-in fix the SAME day!
Thanks,
Tim
Paul Nystrom - MSFT wrote:
Hi Moorpipe1,
I must have missed this question on your last thread. Unfortunately, you can't reassign the hotkey in 3.0 beta 2. Fortunately, this is the right avenue to submit feedback. I'll let the dev team know that customers are already missing this feature.
Paul Nystrom - MSFT
Very disappointing 
Version 3.0 RTW still doesn't have a way to assign a custom hotkey. It's even worse. The help file is saying Winkey+Shift+F (was: Ctrl+Alt+M) is now the hotkey. Actually it's still Ctrl+Alt+M and there no way of changing it.
Well, you can now change the hotkey as follows:
HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows Desktop Search\DS\HotKey
The current dword value of the key is 1613 which is the keyboard scancode for Ctrl+Alt+M. You can change the hotkey by entering the appropriate keyboard scancode.
I hope this helps,
Paul Nystrom - MSFT
Hi Paul,
Thanks for sharing this. I shouldn't look a gift horse in the mouth, but this workaround could have been published on August 25th, when I first reported about this (http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=666188&SiteID=1)
Secondly, I already hinted about doing something like you proposed (see opening post in this thread). Hopefully there will be a neat option in the next release w/o hacking the registry directly.
But hey, I'm not complaining 
Regards.
Thanks,
Ken
Put the modifier code in front of the character code: 1 - Shift, 2 - Ctrl, 4 - Alt, 8 - Win. If combined then add up. For example, Ctrl and Alt, the code is 6.
Examples:
Ctrl+Alt+M: 0x64d = 1613 (4d = M)
Win+S: 0x853 = 2131 (53 = S)
Good luck!
