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[–] [email protected] 156 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (3 children)

I thought this was a trick to get Windows users to nuke their system or something...

Nope, it actually opens LinkedIn.

"Ctrl+Shift+Alt+Win+W" opens Word in a browser
"Ctrl+Shift+Alt+Win+T" opens Teams in a browser
"Ctrl+Shift+Alt+Win+X" opens Excel in a browser
"Ctrl+Shift+Alt+Win+P" opens Powerpoint in a browser
"Ctrl+Shift+Alt+Win+O" opens ~~Outlook in a browser~~ the locally installed Outlook program

Classic Microsoft.

[–] [email protected] 60 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (3 children)

It's because the surface book added an Office button which was just a macro for Ctrl+Shift+Alt+Win

More recently, "LShift+Win+F23" opens Copilot

[–] [email protected] 34 points 6 months ago (3 children)

More recently, “LShift+Win+F23” opens Copilot

That's insane considering 99% of users have never heard of F23 and the ones who know use a separate shortcut to activate it. I've never seen a keyboard with all 24 function keys.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Because you weren’t around when the keyboards were gigantic. IBM keyboard

[–] [email protected] 11 points 6 months ago

That's nothing...that keyboard don't even have the trackball

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

It’s beautiful

[–] [email protected] 25 points 6 months ago (3 children)

Oh shit i gotta be careful. F23 is what i "push" via python script to keep my teams status green...

[–] [email protected] 41 points 6 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Remember when they would actually add an option for obscure use cases like this? Pepperidge Farm remembers.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago

I'm pretty sure that pretty much the whole Windows API is written like this to work around developers' buggy code

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

what does "pepperbridge farm members" have to do anything with the rest of the universe?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago

I just have a mouse jiggle app

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

I think the library is called pyautogui and you just make the script push whatever button every x seconds. I think the teams timeout is like 5min.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 months ago

That's the point. The new copilot key emulates shift+win+f23 because they expect that nobody is using f23

[–] [email protected] 12 points 6 months ago (2 children)

That's bullshit. F13-F36 should be reserved for user macros and remain unused by default in user applications.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 6 months ago

I thought I was somewhat of a power user, but this is the first time I've ever heard of there being function keys beyond F12 :C

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

Never used an iSeries I see

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

Tom Scott says: "then, it presses the F24 key." https://youtu.be/lIFE7h3m40U?t=986

[–] [email protected] 14 points 6 months ago (2 children)

OK, now I'm just going to try Ctrl+Shift+Alt+Win+Every-Key-On-The-Keyboard just to see what happens.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 6 months ago (2 children)

I bet there's a registry key that let's you remap P to Pornhub.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Alright, who's gonna dig for the key?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

mark Zuckerberg will.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago

Or just put all your porn into PowerPoint presentations.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 18 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

HKCU\Software\Classes\ms-officeapp\Shell\Open\Command

Add a REG_SZ entry with your desired command as value.
Since the command doesn't parse parameters, you'll have to write a script that opens your browser at the desired url and put it in your PATH.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago

I've got Office 365 installed so the shortcuts open those local applications.