HOTKEY DETECTIVE (VERSION 1.00) 
Copyright (c) 1995 Ziff Davis Publishing Company
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HOTKEY DETECTIVE by Gregory A. Wolking   First Published June 11, 1996
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ABOUT HOTKEY DETECTIVE
                       Purpose Windows 95 has support for hotkeys, 
but it's quirky at best, buggy at worst, and poorly documented. 
Hotkey Detective lists the hotkeys in use on your system, along with 
their associated shortcuts, and launches Explorer if you want to make 
changes. Thus it provides a mechanism for discovering and eliminating
duplicate hotkeys, which can create problems on your system.

USAGE
      To install Hotkey Detective, simply copy it to your hard disk 
and create a shortcut for it. It does not have to be in your DOS PATH.
When you run Hotkey Detective, it scans your Start Menu and Desktop 
folders and finds the hotkey assignments that Explorer stores in your
.LNK and .PIF files. It presents a sorted list of all the hotkeys 
in use. Because the list is sorted by hotkey name, any items with 
duplicate assignments will be grouped together. If there are dupli-
cates, Hotkey Detective displays a warning message beside the list 
and automatically selects the first duplicated key name.

When you select a key name in the list, the full path to the 
corresponding shortcut appears in the Shortcut Filename box at the
bottom of the window. If the filename is too long for the text field, 
you can resize the dialog and the controls will rearrange themselves
appropriately. The Print Key List button lets you print your hotkeys 
and their associated shortcuts.

To change an assignment, you can either double-click on a key name or 
select a key name and either click the Locate with Explorer button or 
press Enter. Hotkey Detective will launch Explorer in dual-pane view, 
with the shortcut selected in the right-hand pane and the appropriate 
segment of the folder tree opened in the left-hand pane.

The Refresh Key List button tells the program to rescan your system
immediately. The Automatic Refresh check box lets you disable this 
feature if it bogs your system down. The check box setting is saved
automatically when you exit the program.

Explorer is unreliable at updating its internal hotkey table. As a
result, you can end up with "ghosted" hotkeys that continue to launch
items even after you have removed their assignments, along with keys
that continue to launch the wrong items after you have eliminated 
duplicate settings. To correct this, shut down your system and reboot.

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