Disable the Send-Message Global Hotkey (SHIFT+SHIFT)

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Matias Nino

People in our Groove evaluation study are constantly accidentally typing the
shift key twice while writing and they can't stand the pop up constantly
interrupting their work. I truly hope our decision to roll-out Groove to the
entire enterprise is not thwarted by a stupid usability bug like this!

There MUST be a workaround. If any program can add a global hotkey to
windows, surely there is a way to disrupt this setting at least at the
windows level.

Microsoft please advise!

....Matias Nino
 
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Donna Shaw \(Microsoft Program Manager\)

There is an unsupported reg key you can use to disable this feature (you
might not believe this, but some people actually like it!).

Create a "DisableHotkey" STRING value under:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\12.0\Groove\InstaGroove

and set it to the string "1" (i.e. the number one as a character).

Shut down and restart Groove and the hotkey should be disabled.
 
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N Fiorello

Donna,

Thank you very much for the hack. You may well have saved my few remaining
hairs from being pulled out my head.

Just one observation: When "everyone except *you* actually likes" a feature,
a registry hack is perfectly acceptable. However, wouldn't you agree when
only "some people actually like" a feature, that calls for an option in the
GUI? Maybe in a service pack?
 
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Donna Shaw \(Microsoft Program Manager\)

Duly noted....
:)


N Fiorello said:
Donna,

Thank you very much for the hack. You may well have saved my few remaining
hairs from being pulled out my head.

Just one observation: When "everyone except *you* actually likes" a
feature,
a registry hack is perfectly acceptable. However, wouldn't you agree when
only "some people actually like" a feature, that calls for an option in
the
GUI? Maybe in a service pack?
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