HippsieGypsie
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Recently I was communicating with a dictionary app developer asking why some of the hot keys didn't work in their app. They wrote back claiming they did. In further research of my system I found out they were correct. I found that some of my hot keys on my metro side are not working. The idea is to snap this thing to the side, highlight a word which lights up a bar in the app, Alt/Tab over to it, and then press Enter for it to look up the word, but Enter doesn't work. Left mouse click within the app works as it should.
All of my single keys and most of my combination keys like Alt/Tab for flip, WinKey/E for FE, Alt/F4 for closing, etc work, but my WinKey/Arrow(s) combination to snap apps don't work, however they all work on the desktop. Mouse-pointer-to-hand-gestures work for snapping Metro apps. Strangely hot keys work with snapping desktop apps. At some time within the last couple of days things went south on the Metro side. I booted into my 8.1 partition to find out they all worked there.
I ran scannow. It fixed some files but not some others, of which was confirmed in the log file. That didn't fix my problem. Then ran DISM (online) which fixed all files, but didn't do the trick either. Then just for grins I ran the app troubleshooter which didn't find anything, but that warned me that my video driver may be out of date. I checked that out and that is not the case. It's the same driver on my 8.1 side and all works there.
All worked until a few days ago. It may be an update that goofed things up but then again all works on my 8.1 side, although I know that's somewhat of a different animal. Besides regular Defender updates and a Flash Player update recently, there hasn't been a major 8 update since 9/12, so I think rolling it back won't help. Thing is too is that I didn't mirror after I installed Office. I chanced it with thinking of the 8.1 upgrade coming up. I lost!
I know all worked before, for I'm big on hot keys. Does anyone have any suggestions?
All of my single keys and most of my combination keys like Alt/Tab for flip, WinKey/E for FE, Alt/F4 for closing, etc work, but my WinKey/Arrow(s) combination to snap apps don't work, however they all work on the desktop. Mouse-pointer-to-hand-gestures work for snapping Metro apps. Strangely hot keys work with snapping desktop apps. At some time within the last couple of days things went south on the Metro side. I booted into my 8.1 partition to find out they all worked there.
I ran scannow. It fixed some files but not some others, of which was confirmed in the log file. That didn't fix my problem. Then ran DISM (online) which fixed all files, but didn't do the trick either. Then just for grins I ran the app troubleshooter which didn't find anything, but that warned me that my video driver may be out of date. I checked that out and that is not the case. It's the same driver on my 8.1 side and all works there.
All worked until a few days ago. It may be an update that goofed things up but then again all works on my 8.1 side, although I know that's somewhat of a different animal. Besides regular Defender updates and a Flash Player update recently, there hasn't been a major 8 update since 9/12, so I think rolling it back won't help. Thing is too is that I didn't mirror after I installed Office. I chanced it with thinking of the 8.1 upgrade coming up. I lost!
I know all worked before, for I'm big on hot keys. Does anyone have any suggestions?
My Computer
System One
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- OS
- 8.1 Pro X64
- Computer type
- PC/Desktop
- System Manufacturer/Model
- Acer T690
- CPU
- Intel Pentium D Dual Core
- Motherboard
- Acer/Intel E946GZ
- Memory
- 2GB (max upgrade)
- Graphics Card(s)
- Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 3000 - PCI Express x16
- Sound Card
- Integrated RealTek ALC888 high-definition audio with 7.1 channel audio support
- Monitor(s) Displays
- Acer AL1917W A LCD
- Screen Resolution
- 1440 X 900
- Hard Drives
- 350 GB Seagate Barracuda 7200.10
Thumb drives
- PSU
- Standard 250 watt
- Case
- Desktop 7.2" (183mm) W x 17.5" (445mm) L x 14.5"
- Cooling
- Dual case fans + CPU fan
- Keyboard
- Acer Windows PS/2
- Mouse
- Wireless Microsoft Arc
- Internet Speed
- 54mbp/s
- Browser
- IE11
- Antivirus
- Defender
- Other Info
- Office Pro 2013 / Nokia Lumia 1520 Windows Phone 8.1DP GDR1