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From: Zootal on 9 Jan 2010 22:40
Tnx for the input. I did find it. It's not too bad today, but a lot of the
usenet groups are being trashed lately by the spammers. They seem to come
and go in cycles.

"R. C. White" <rc(a)grandecom.net> wrote in message
news:uYJsf4ZkKHA.1656(a)TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...
> Hi, Zootal.
>
> Don't release the WinKey; hold it down like the Shift key while you press
> the R key; that produces "Run". WinKey+E starts Windows Explorer;
> WinKey+D (for Desktop) hides all the icons on your desktop - or brings
> them back.
>
> The Windows logo key - often labeled Start and sometimes called the Search
> key, since it does that, too, in Win7 - works like the <Alt> key if you
> press and release, or like the <Ctrl> key if you hold it down.
>
> And the Usenet newsgroup for Win7 is alt.windows7.general. Sadly, the
> same trolls who have trashed vista.general have already discovered that NG
> and are out-grossing each other in trashing it, too. :>(
>
> In spite of the protests from many MVPs and other users, Microsoft decided
> to NOT support Win7 in newsgroups; only in web-based forums.
>
> RC
> --
> R. C. White, CPA
> San Marcos, TX
> rc(a)grandecom.net
> Microsoft Windows MVP
> Windows Live Mail 2009 (14.0.8089.0726) in Win7 Ultimate x64
>
> "Zootal" <msnews(a)spam.zootal.nospam.com> wrote in message
> news:O95mlHZkKHA.4356(a)TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...
>> Hmm...must be some way then to disable the search dialog. If I press the
>> Start button on my keyboard, the start menu appears with the cursor in a
>> box "Search programs and files"....I need to look some more...
>>
>> "Kerry Brown" <kerry(a)kdbNOSPAMsys-tems.c*a*m> wrote in message
>> news:OmuCdGYkKHA.5608(a)TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl...
>>> Start-ru works on mine. I like Winkey-R as that works on most versions
>>> of Windows.
>>>
>>> --
>>> Kerry Brown
>>> MS-MVP - Windows Desktop Experience: Systems Administration
>>> http://www.vistahelp.ca/phpBB2/
>>>
>>> "Zootal" <msnews(a)spam.zootal.nospam.com> wrote in message
>>> news:e4V27GXkKHA.1824(a)TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...
>>>> Firstly, are there no Windows 7 specific groups?
>>>>
>>>> This really isn't a 64 bit issue - I suppose the 32 bit version does
>>>> the same thing. With XP and prior version of windows, I could put
>>>> directories on the start menu so that I could press Start followed by
>>>> the first letter of the directory, and it would open that directory.
>>>> Since "Run" started with an R, and I didn't have anything else there
>>>> that started with R, I could go Start-R and the run dialog would
>>>> appear. Is it possible to get Win7 to do this?
>
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