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At 2/7/2013 11:29 AM Thursday, David McFarlane wrote: >>2. without pause|break how am I going to pull up system properties >>quickly? (WindowsKey +Pause|Break) > >I call for abolishing the Windows Key! Yet another unnecessary and >proprietary expansion of the keyboard -- what next, a "Command" >key? (Oh, wait...) > >(Which leaves open how to quickly pull up system properties with >neither Windows Key nor Pause|Break, I will leave that to the other adepts.) OK, with Vista or 7 I can do that by pressing Ctrl+Escape, starting to type "system", whereupon System pops up in the search results, and I just down-arrow to it and press Enter. That's plenty good enough for me, much more mnemonic and generic than WindowsKey + Pause|Break, and once I have opened System Properties I am bound to leave it open and just Alt+Tab to it in future, so not really all that inconvenient to type in a few easily remembered keys to get it started the first time. But different strokes for different folks. -- dkm