britechguy
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Background: Individuals who are blind or low vision tend to assign hot keys to desktop shortcuts to a far greater extent than sighted individuals do (if they even know such exist). The NVDA screen reader assigns Ctrl + Alt + N as its hotkey, many people with JAWS will assign Ctrl + Alt + J, etc. This morning someone was asking about assigning Ctrl + Alt + F to Firefox, which works fine for me, but not for them. I've pretty much determined that something else must already have Ctrl + Alt + F assigned.
I found the following VBS script, which works like a charm: ListHotKeys.vbs
I thought, just for kicks, I'd ask Copilot to rewrite it in PowerShell, which it did: ListHotKeys.ps1
The interesting thing is that with the VBS version if I select and double click, I get the pop-up dialog that gives the list of hot keys in use and what's using them. If I do the same with the PS1 version, I get nothing and opens in Notepad. Yet, if I have that PS1 version selected, bring up the context menu and choose "Run with PowerShell," a PowerShell window opens, the dialog opens in front of it, and when I hit OK on the dialog, both it and the PowerShell window close.
I could have sworn when I was using PS1 files in the past that they acted just like BAT files do and just ran the code in them. I can't figure out why this one is opening for edit rather than just running.
Any insights welcome.
I found the following VBS script, which works like a charm: ListHotKeys.vbs
I thought, just for kicks, I'd ask Copilot to rewrite it in PowerShell, which it did: ListHotKeys.ps1
The interesting thing is that with the VBS version if I select and double click, I get the pop-up dialog that gives the list of hot keys in use and what's using them. If I do the same with the PS1 version, I get nothing and opens in Notepad. Yet, if I have that PS1 version selected, bring up the context menu and choose "Run with PowerShell," a PowerShell window opens, the dialog opens in front of it, and when I hit OK on the dialog, both it and the PowerShell window close.
I could have sworn when I was using PS1 files in the past that they acted just like BAT files do and just ran the code in them. I can't figure out why this one is opening for edit rather than just running.
Any insights welcome.
