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[General] Determining why some alt+ functions no longer work   [General]

By: Ben Kent       
Date: Mar 22,2017 at 22:52
In Response to: [General] Determining why some alt+ functions no longer work (Jerry Schulman)

> Is there a way to determine which program is "grabbing" the
> alt+f10 key, for example, but not some others and interfering with
> Ztree??
>
> Thanks
>
> Jerry

Does ZTW_CFG.EXE exist in the same directory as ztw.exe or ZTW64.EXE?
Is ZTW_CFG.EXE corrupted? i.e. can you run it.
Does F12,ALT_F10 work?
or F4,F4,F10

Video card utilities have a habit of setting global hot keys.

Can you boot to a different OS?
or plug the keyboard into another machine to rule out the keyboard being the cause.

I did a web search and found this https://superuser.com/questions/11308/ho...hich-process-owns-a-hotkey-in-windows but that utility looks dangerous.

You might have to do the following.
Close all apps, except ZTree
Focus to ZTree, Check Alt-F10

Loop
End a system tray applet
Focus to ZTree, Check Alt-F10
until you run out of closable applets or you find the offending process

Using Taskmanager, processes/Details tab
Make sure the username column is visible
starting with your processes
Loop
End a task
Focus to ZTree, Check Alt-F10
until you find the offending process

Warning: Ending processes this way may make the system unstable, so be ready to do a reboot.

If you find the offending application, options
Reconfigure it to stop it using Alt-F10
Stop it running

If you don't find the cause, options
Run ZTW_CFG.EXE directly when you need it
use F12,ALT_F10
use F4,F4,F10


Ben

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