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” opensOutlook in a browserthe locally installed Outlook programClassic Microsoft.
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
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.
Because you weren’t around when the keyboards were gigantic. IBM keyboard
That’s nothing…that keyboard don’t even have the trackball
It’s beautiful
Oh shit i gotta be careful. F23 is what i “push” via python script to keep my teams status green…
Remember when they would actually add an option for obscure use cases like this? Pepperidge Farm remembers.
I’m pretty sure that pretty much the whole Windows API is written like this to work around developers’ buggy code
I just have a mouse jiggle app
Please share ty
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.
Ty
That’s the point. The new copilot key emulates shift+win+f23 because they expect that nobody is using f23
OK, now I’m just going to try Ctrl+Shift+Alt+Win+Every-Key-On-The-Keyboard just to see what happens.
I bet there’s a registry key that let’s you remap P to Pornhub.
Alright, who’s gonna dig for the key?
Or just put all your porn into PowerPoint presentations.
Report back.
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.
I’ve got Office 365 installed so the shortcuts open those local applications.
I’m a huge keyboard shortcut guy. But any more than two modifiers can fuck right off. I wanna launch a program, not play carpel tunnel Twister.
That’s the point, they are this long on purpose so that you never actually press them by accident, and never conflict with any other shortcut someone would use. They exist for custom keyboards that have an “Office” or “Copilot” button. The special key then sends that shortcut.
I thought taking a screenshot in macos was painful but this takes the biscuit
Shift-Apple/Command-3 (or 4) is hardly a stretch. It’s more natural than Shift-Ctrl-anything.
I’m more used to Super-Shift-S
Isn’t there a ctrl in the Mac one too though?
Good ol “hyper key”, Ctrl+Shift+Super+Alt
No one:
Absolutely no one ever:
Microsoft: Hey guys…
I don’t usually want to open LinkedIn at all. I wonder if they paid MS for the shortcut?
LinkedIn is owned by MS
Ah, thanks. I missed that. I guess I need to update my “all these brands are really all owned by XYZ” chart again.
Wait a few more years, it’ll just be one single circle.
Sooo hope the Justice Department’s new antitrust push proves this joke wrong!
And that circle? Taco Bell.
Funny, but Taco Bell is already a subsidiary of “Yum! Foods Incorporated” who is a terrible company to work for and owns TB, KFC, Pizza Hut, Long John Silvers, and A&W.
Fun fact the cinnamon sugar on Pizza Hut products is the same cinnamon sugar on those bullshit fake churro bites at Taco Bell, even comes in a Taco Bell branded box and everything.
I was making a joke reference to the movie Demolition Man. I recommend checking it out if you haven’t.
They really should make a movie about the Franchise Wars
Will do, thanks! Definitely got that it was a joke, but did not get the reference. Think of my comment as more of the comedic straight man than actually serious lol, I knew you didn’t really think TB would own everything!
Who is the parent organization of Yum! Brands? That would be PepsiCo
Spun off in ‘97 I guess but that’s not really the same as selling from my understanding
Edit: they are legally distinct entities that answer to largely the same shareholders after some research
Actually, correct me if I’m wrong but I don’t think PepsiCo owns Yum!, at least not in the same way Yum! owns the aforementioned subsidiaries.
In any case, I still see it as unlikely that Taco Bell will become the owner of everything, doubly so if it is owned by “Yum! which is owned by PepsiCo” rather than just “owned by Yum!” as that is just another layer down for Taco Bell they’d have to climb out of, just to be owned by themselves, before they can start buying companies to own.
Demolition Man :-)
Ah, the classic “the US is the whole world” idiocy.
I mean, all of these companies that really should be broken up are, for some totally, definitely, unknown reason based in the US. So not that weird in that context.
It’s part of the registry and cannot be reprogrammed without essentially bricking your system
There’s a way to disable the shortcuts so they can be remapped: https://github.com/midrare/hyperenable
It basically runs and creates the same global hotkeys as explorer.exe would for those Office ones, but it does so right before explorer launches so it can’t assign them anymore. After that, the program disables them so you’re free to use the hotkeys for other programs.
Probably done to support a meta-key on a keyboard where a manufacturer wanted a dedicated LinkedIn button.
That, and Linkedin is wholly owned by Microsoft.
Anyone have any idea why it was programmed in?
Ctrl + shift + alt + win + any letter opens office apps
- W - Word
- P - PowerPoint
- T - teams
- N - OneNote
…etc
LinkedIn just happens to be L. If there isn’t an app installed (or available) it’ll just open in your browser.
I actually found these a few years ago when I decided to press every modifier letter combination. Back then it wasn’t documented anywhere but I’ve seen it pop up a few times in the last month so somebody must’ve found and shared it recently
I already know that. What I asked is if someone knows why Microsoft added those shortcuts.
Because they own all those products and want to make it easier to use them
Can I map excel to blah blah blah -e somehow?
I think it was Thor from Pirate Gaming.
I believe this is so they can make keyboards with a fancy “LinkedIn Button” on them, just like they’re trying to do now with Copilot.
My guess is it caters to “windows power users” that like to be the ones to point these obscure shortcuts to other people.
You guys never ragequit a game by slamming your hand into the keyboard? Opens up almost every Office program at the same time, it’s glorious!
granted. it now sets edge as default and then opens linkedin in your default browser.
WHAT THE FUCK
Is it possible to open lemmy instead
Thanks, I hate it
Are you fucking kidding me? This is the best most useless information I’ve learned in a while
WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK
Default browser?
You mean Edge?
wtf
