Keyboard shortcut – Henry Poon's Blog https://blog.henrypoon.com Mon, 03 Oct 2022 05:30:27 +0000 en-US hourly 1 83044199 What to do with a window that is trapped off the screen https://blog.henrypoon.com/blog/2013/04/24/what-to-do-with-a-window-that-is-trapped-off-the-screen/ https://blog.henrypoon.com/blog/2013/04/24/what-to-do-with-a-window-that-is-trapped-off-the-screen/#respond Wed, 24 Apr 2013 19:56:51 +0000 http://henrypoon.mooo.com/blog/what-to-do-with-a-window-that-is-trapped-off-the-screen Because of my dual monitor setup, sometimes programs don’t really remember what screen appears on which screen and in very rare cases, the window shows up on neither screen.  The following key commands should help fix that.

  1. Select the hidden screen (using the taskbar or some other method)
  2. Press ‘Alt+Space’ (a window should pop up with a few options)
  3. Press ‘M’ to enable the move option
  4. Use the arrow keys to bring the hidden window back into view

It works like a charm!

]]> https://blog.henrypoon.com/blog/2013/04/24/what-to-do-with-a-window-that-is-trapped-off-the-screen/feed/ 0 1598 Removing the annoying Windows language hotkeys “Ctrl+Space”, “Shift+Space” etc. that toggles the full-width/half-width characters on the Chinese IME https://blog.henrypoon.com/blog/2012/01/03/removing-the-annoying-windows-language-hotkeys-ctrlspace-shiftspace-etc-that-toggles-the-full-widthhalf-width-characters-on-the-chinese-ime/ https://blog.henrypoon.com/blog/2012/01/03/removing-the-annoying-windows-language-hotkeys-ctrlspace-shiftspace-etc-that-toggles-the-full-widthhalf-width-characters-on-the-chinese-ime/#comments Tue, 03 Jan 2012 23:04:52 +0000 http://henrypoon.mooo.com/blog/removing-the-annoying-windows-language-hotkeys-%e2%80%9cctrlspace%e2%80%9d-%e2%80%9cshiftspace%e2%80%9d-etc-that-toggles-the-full-widthhalf-width-characters-on-the-chinese-ime There is a bug in Windows that prevents switching the hotkey of some of the language bar features.  The user is unable to change any of the hotkeys in the Advanced Key Settings page.  Some of the changed hotkeys revert to what they were before when the user tries to apply the changes.  Two keys in particular, the “Ctrl+Space” and the “Shift+Space” key combinations are the most annoying.

These two keys toggle the full-width (double-byte), and the half-width (single-byte”) character sets when typing with the Chinese IME.  Full-width characters look like “ｔｈｉｓ “ while half-width is what people are normally used to.  The default key combinations are easy to press by accident in situations such as capitalizing a title.  Therefore, it is beneficial to remove this hotkey.

Solution

Because changing the key settings manually through Windows does not work, one must go through the registry.  The following fix applies to the current user that is logged in.  Apply the following registry keys and then restart the computer.

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Input Method\Hot Keys]

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Input Method\Hot Keys\00000010]
“Virtual Key”=hex:ff,00,00,00
“Key Modifiers”=hex:00,c0,00,00
“Target IME”=hex:00,00,00,00

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Input Method\Hot Keys\00000011]
“Virtual Key”=hex:ff,00,00,00
“Key Modifiers”=hex:00,c0,00,00
“Target IME”=hex:00,00,00,00

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Input Method\Hot Keys\00000012]
“Virtual Key”=hex:ff,00,00,00
“Key Modifiers”=hex:00,c0,00,00
“Target IME”=hex:00,00,00,00

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Input Method\Hot Keys\00000070]
“Virtual Key”=hex:ff,00,00,00
“Key Modifiers”=hex:00,c0,00,00
“Target IME”=hex:00,00,00,00

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Input Method\Hot Keys\00000071]
“Virtual Key”=hex:ff,00,00,00
“Key Modifiers”=hex:00,c0,00,00
“Target IME”=hex:00,00,00,00

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Input Method\Hot Keys\00000072]
“Virtual Key”=hex:ff,00,00,00
“Key Modifiers”=hex:00,c0,00,00
“Target IME”=hex:00,00,00,00

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Input Method\Hot Keys\00000201]
“Virtual Key”=hex:ff,00,00,00
“Key Modifiers”=hex:00,c0,00,00
“Target IME”=hex:00,00,00,00

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Input Method\Hot Keys\00000202]
“Virtual Key”=hex:ff,00,00,00
“Key Modifiers”=hex:00,c0,00,00
“Target IME”=hex:00,00,00,00

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Input Method\Hot Keys\00000203]
“Virtual Key”=hex:ff,00,00,00
“Key Modifiers”=hex:00,c0,00,00
“Target IME”=hex:00,00,00,00

In the registry, one can also navigate to “HKEY_CURRENT_USERControl PanelInput MethodHot Keys” and see a list of folders with names that have eight numbers in them with leading zeroes.  Each folder here represents a particular hotkey related to an IME.  Clicking on one of these folders will show data for these keys.

Setting “Key Modifiers” to “00 c0 00 00” removes the use of the Ctrl and Alt key for the hotkey.
Setting “Virtual Key” to “ff 00 00 00” sets the key to nothing.
The key “Target IME” can be left as is.

In the case of the “Shift+Space” hotkey, “Shift” is the key modifier and “Space” is the virtual key.

It is unclear which folder corresponds to the key that toggles the character shape, therefore this fix is a blanket approach.

If the Above Still Fails

Try combining the fix with an installation of Microsoft Office IME 2010, which can be downloaded here: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/zh-tw/details.aspx?FamilyID=60984ecd-9575-411a-bd38-2294f17c4131&displaylang=zh-tw.  Despite the name, it does not require Microsoft Office to be installed. After installing, apply the registry keys and restart.

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