Windows 8.1 hotkeys I discovered by accident...

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Windows 8.1 hotkeys I discovered by accident...
Ctrl-Alt-ArrowDown, Ctrl-Alt-Left, Ctrl-Alt-Right, Ctrl-Alt-ArrowUp 

#ohemmgee  

Shift-Insert was new to me as well...

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  1. Fred AhrensMarch 6, 2015 at 9:57 AM

    What does it do? Doesn't show any reaction on my system.

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  2. David HeffernanMarch 6, 2015 at 10:14 AM

    Those aren't 8.1 hotkeys. The OS isn't allowed to have hotkeys that don't include the Windows key. Otherwise it screws with apps. Those will be hotkeys from your Intel graphics driver. I hate them because they screw with the shortcuts in my app.

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  3. Lars FosdalMarch 6, 2015 at 10:37 AM

    So is it my the display driver then?
    Down inverts my primary display, Left makes it go portrait mode with left on top, and Right - the opposite.  Up restores the default.

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  4. David HeffernanMarch 6, 2015 at 11:38 AM

    Indeed. Imagine the fun when my users try to rotate the world view and find that the screen rotates instead. The Intel engineers who implemented this are idiots. Some developers really believe that their program is the only one that will run on a machine.

    http://www.orcina.com/blog/keyboard-shortcuts-for-rotation/

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  5. Stefan GlienkeMarch 6, 2015 at 12:09 PM

    Isn't that what you always like, Fabian S. Biehn, when Ctrl+Alt+Up/Down switches around screens instead of navigating to the next occurence of a word in the code editor? ;)

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  6. Asbjørn HeidMarch 6, 2015 at 2:52 PM

    Fun fact: Intel graphics driver eats Ctrl+Alt+F1-F12 shortcuts, even if they're not mapped to anything in the driver's settings.

    You have to disable the driver shortcuts entirely for it not to eat them.

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  7. David HeffernanMarch 6, 2015 at 11:56 PM

    Graphics card UI devs are all permanently drunk.

    "I know, we'll install notification icons and multiple shell context menu items. It will make it so much easier for users to change their color profile 25 times a day."

    We don't need to be notified of anything. It's fair to say that we will notice if the display stops working. We don't change driver settings regularly. Keep off our menus. When we need to make changes we'll go to the control panel.

    Actually it's probably not the devs. They probably know all this. It's probably some hopeless PHB.

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  8. mezenMarch 7, 2015 at 12:58 AM

    Stefan Glienke GNAAARRRRGHGHH!
    Simon Stuart yes, you can disable this shortcuts, but you cant disable the registration of these shortcuts... The intel driver still eats these shortcuts, but dont do anything with it. My programm never gets any shortcut because the intel driver is always started before my programm. After every reboot I have to open the Taskmanager and kill the intel exe which ends with "HK.exe".

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  9. Bruce CanoMarch 7, 2015 at 5:50 AM

    Otro atajo interesante. Abrir una ventana, presionen tecla windows + tecla derecha/izquierda/arriba/abajo. = )

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  10. mezenMarch 7, 2015 at 6:14 AM

    Bruce Cano sry, i dont understand spanish, but if you mean aero snap, than it is a feature from windows 7 and newer.

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  11. David HeffernanMarch 7, 2015 at 6:20 AM

    Bruce Cano That's well known and official. What we are discussing here is a travesty that should never have happened, and is nothing at all to do with Windows.

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  12. Jo ClaesMarch 8, 2015 at 12:06 AM

    Don't use the installer. manually extract the exe/msi and add drivers using device manager no extra software is installed

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  13. Klaus EdelmannMarch 11, 2015 at 1:53 AM

    David Heffernan "We don't need to be notified of anything."?? I guess you have to read "The circle" by Dave Eggers ;-)

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