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I learned something new that may be helpful to you guys :)
This is probably one of old those things where everyone knows about this except for me, but I wanted to share anyway since this makes my life easier I had to buy a new keyboard since my other one died on me yesterday. This new kb is great but the shift key is a little harder to press, so a lot of times when I needed to capitalize a letter, it wouldn't register. I did some research and learned that if you quickly tap the SHIFT key five times on your keyboard, a menu in Windows will appear displaying a few options.
If you enable the STICKY KEYS option, it allows you to press SHIFT once, and you can press another key a second or so later on and it will capitalize it without you having to hold down the shift key while pressing the key I wish I would have known about this years ago. When programming, I need to hit the SHIFT and 4 key to create the dollar sign to represent a variable, and sometimes I press SHIFT and 4 and it just displays 4 instead. Or using the letter "i" instead of "I" due to this problem as well. I had to share this info to those who have the same problem of hitting the shift key to capitalize a letter and not always having it register.
So in short, the SHIFT key delay time is extended so you can tap it without having to hold it down to capitalize a letter. Oh yeah, be sure to go under the sticky key settings and turn off the option to disable it if two keys are pressed, since that usually turns off sticky keys accidentally.
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wow, i wasnt aware of this, im never gonna use it cos i dont have that problem but now i know incase anyone else does =D
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Sun Jan 03, 2010 4:01 pm |
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yeah, i found that out when i was in freshman year in Computer Apps class. Got a D on a project cause i couldn't figure out how to take it off. XD
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Sun Jan 03, 2010 5:25 pm |
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Well, I wouldn't say that you're the only one who doesn't know FuN, but among all of the computer geeks I hang out with (including myself) just about everyone I know is aware of this. But I'd say over 80% of people with PCs don't know about this. There are actually plenty of these little options, there's one for holding Shift for like 10 seconds, and there are some other cool things in control panel like the mouse emulator and whatnot.
I for one, dislike it. You can access it via the control panel if you need it, and with the hotkey (tapping shift 5 times) enabled, I end up playing a game where Shift is the bloody jump button and five minutes into the game windows pops up and goes "lol u spammed teh shift key noob, give me teh sticky keys" which defocuses the window with the game in it, subsequently causing me to lose the game....
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I knew about this already but its good for less computer literate people to know if they ever need it, and yeah there are a lot of kool (normally useless in most circumstances) little things you can do XD
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| Arc wrote: |
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This.
A lot of the crap that windows has built into it like that is rarely, if ever, actually useful. The mouse emulator is probably the most common one I use, just because there are times in which I don't have access to a mouse. Just because most of my mice are wireless and connecting them to a new computer is a pain.
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I only found out what this was because of emulators XD
I used the shift key to speed them up and sometimes I'd press it continuously and the damned sticky things would come out >_<
So I always had to disable it XD
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it used to annoy the hell out of me i used to play a lot of old games and a few of them used the shift key ( a lot of them used every key bloody confusing ass star trek games XD)
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Though seriously if Im out walking around in the night to ASDA with the pedo/rapist/murderer/psycho of questionable sanity vampy....who do I have to be afraid of? XD
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I like how my last 2 minutes involved
reading funs text: "if you press the SHIFT key five times..."
*immediately does without reading further*
Thank god the next line wasn't like "You're balls fall off and explode blowing your legs off at the knees"
I coulda been screwed....
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I like how my last 2 minutes involved
reading funs text: "if you press the SHIFT key five times..."
*immediately does without reading further*
Thank god the next line wasn't like "You're balls fall off and explode blowing your legs off at the knees"
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| I did some research and learned that if you quickly tap the SHIFT key five times on your keyboard, a menu in Windows will appear displaying a few options. |
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are the same thing actually.
But yeah... it happens. I'm a winXP user myself and even I hate it, but I can't get used to linux... it's a matter of habit I guess. And I don't like changes
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| ElderBrujah wrote: |
| Fithosol wrote: |
I like how my last 2 minutes involved
reading funs text: "if you press the SHIFT key five times..."
*immediately does without reading further*
Thank god the next line wasn't like "You're balls fall off and explode blowing your legs off at the knees"
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Actually.... no.... you wouldn't have been
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Ah, the humor!
Well, that little tip was just one of many other PC-things that I don't know anything about. xD So FuN wasn't completely alone on that one.
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not going to get windows 7 then kai?
and screw linux even i still use XP XD
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Though seriously if Im out walking around in the night to ASDA with the pedo/rapist/murderer/psycho of questionable sanity vampy....who do I have to be afraid of? XD
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| A warlock? Arc? ... I've heard weirder things about you to be fair actually XD |
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| Arc's children would be the spawn of satan..... |
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