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
what does “pepperbridge farm members” have to do anything with the rest of the universe?
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
That’s bullshit. F13-F36 should be reserved for user macros and remain unused by default in user applications.
I thought I was somewhat of a power user, but this is the first time I’ve ever heard of there being function keys beyond F12 :C
Never used an iSeries I see
Tom Scott says: “then, it presses the F24 key.” https://youtu.be/lIFE7h3m40U?t=986
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?
mark Zuckerberg will.
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…
insert logan paul dead man scene, where logan paul says " i think thats a dead person there" or whatever the lung emoji was the quote
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.
Demolition Man :-)
Ah, the classic “the US is the whole world” idiocy.
All of those companied are based in the US, while having global outreach.
So yes, in this case what US authorities decide will influence an entire world.
P.S. I’m not American, and yes, often times Americans do forget 96% of people don’t live in the land of the free. That’s not the case.
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.
im assuming apple is on that list
Definitely. Both Apple and Google are high up on that list.
It’s part of the registry and cannot be reprogrammed without essentially bricking your system
Extrapolating from this point, I can only imagine the kind of fun things Windows 11 will have in store for us, when they finally force everyone to switch over to it.
To Linux you say?
Well, how is his wife holding up?
To Linux, you say?
Meh. I never liked that whole concept. That’s like saying “I hate the cars Detroit and Tokyo are designing, these days. That’s why I’m going to build my own train.”
“Wait, hold on! Don’t walk away! It’s not like it was, back in the old days! With the current build-your-own-locomotive kits, you ALMOST never have to lay any of your own track, anymore!”
All along, the correct solution would have been for Microsoft to have a real commercial competitor, other than Apple.
Do I have words for you about the beauty of building your own bicycle from scratch! And as an added perk you can do it in all the time that linux mint saves you by just giving you a fully functional operating system
Since Windows XP and especially since Vista/7, I spent a lot of my time with Windows re-learning how to do the same things. They kept moving controls, or lengthening the process to get to the same controls via onioneering. I switched to Linux, and it was about the same learning process as a new version of Windows. Then I upgraded to a new version of the distro I was using…and it was mostly the same, had a couple extra features and came with a different default icon set.
Result: The time I used to spend re-learning how to do things I already knew how to do was now spent learning how to do new things. Instead of treading water, I’m making headway.
Linux mint is Goooooood, man I love that OS.
If only I wouldn’t need to build my own ISOs to install Linux. If only someone could build the system for me…
Nope, the correct solution would have been for MS to compete fairly with OSS, instead of, for example, buying the standardization of its Office suite formats, and then never implementing those formats to prevent OpenOffice from being 100% interoperable.
Hmmmmmm…what force might have coerced Microsoft to behave more reasonably, in that situation? PERHAPS A SOLID COMPETITOR, WHO WOULD GAIN MARKET SHARE AGAINST THEM, IF THEY PISSED OFF THE MARKET BY BREAKING COMPATIBILITY, IN THE VITAL OFFICE SUITE SPACE?
Robust competition in the actual operating system market would be the solution, exactly like I said.
The problem with Linux is that, despite being fucking free, it’s not robust competition. It always hovers somewhere in the 1-4 percent range, for desktop users. It’s not fair or logical for that to be the case, really…but here we are.
I honestly think there’s a parallel universe, quite close to our own, where IBM made a bigger push to establish OS/2 (or something else) as a general-purpose, consumer-targeted operating system, or maybe a whole other company made a compatible competitor OS. I’m talking, like, all the way back in the early 90s, when Windows was just getting on its feet.
In that world, where Microsoft had been forced to split the market with a genuine competitor, they wouldn’t have been able to do all the crazy shit that a monopoly allows. The point is, they truly would have had to be forced into that position. No business is going to compete fairly out of the goodness of its heart, because it doesn’t have a heart. It only has predatory instincts.
Of course, to belabor the point, that’s why nobody’s high-minded philosophy about “free as in free speech, not free beer” software was ever going to be the solution. That kind of homespun cringe shit is exactly how you get 1-4 percent market share, even though your product can be obtained gratis.
It’s not my fault, but it’s the truth.
what force might have coerced Microsoft to behave more reasonably, in that situation?
Strong antitrust and anti-corruption laws. Their actions were not “unreasonable”, they were straight up illegal.
Edit: also you should read up on the whole thing. They didn’t break compatibility with their own office suite of course. What they did is lie to (and almost definitely pay off) the standardization body: “here is the spec for OpenXML, you see we’re open it’s right here in the name, anyone can implement it and be interoperable with us”. So OpenXML was standardized along with OpenOffice’s OOXML (at the start of the process, only OOXML was considered for standardization).
Once the deed was done, they of course didn’t implement OOXML in MS Office (as is their right), but they also didn’t implement their own OpenXML spec properly, which means OpenOffice still had to reverse-engineer an intentionally obfuscated and broken format to try and read/write documents compatible with MSO.
So the whole thing has been absolutely useless, except for a couple of “experts” from the panel who came out of it a bit richer.
See, here’s the thing, though:
Imagine what might have been accomplished if everyone who has ever oh-so-aggressively proselytized to their fellow citizens, trying to get them to adopt Linux had TALKED ABOUT THIS SHIT, INSTEAD.
Not as a reason to adopt Linux. Not as a way to try and grow Linux’s 1-4 percent of the market share up to oooooh, maybe 8 percent. No. Imagine if they had set that shit aside and expended all that effort, getting the vote out for candidates who would have supported anti-trust enforcement.
And don’t get pessimistic on me, now. If you’re enough of a die-hard, lost-cause enthusiast to believe Linux can grow from 1-4 percent of the userbase to somehow, some way take over Microsoft’s dominant position, one of these decades…well, you can’t very well turn around and say “nah, all politicians are the same, there’s no hope for change in that area.”
Either be a pie-in-the-sky dreamer who never gives up hope OR DON’T.
In all honesty, I think most Linux street-preachers would actually rather open source never get any more traction. At least, not in the actual desktop operating system realm. Deep down, I think most of them prefer to be the poor, noble, beknighted underdog. Always preaching the truth, always being ignored by the idiot masses. It’s a phenomenal way to stroke one’s own ego.
Too late. Neal Stephenson already beat you to the punch with this analogy.
Imagine a crossroads where four competing auto dealerships are situated. One of them (Microsoft) is much, much bigger than the others. It started out years ago selling three-speed bicycles (MS-DOS); these were not perfect, but they worked, and when they broke you could easily fix them.
There was a competing bicycle dealership next door (Apple) that one day began selling motorized vehicles–expensive but attractively styled cars with their innards hermetically sealed, so that how they worked was something of a mystery.
The big dealership responded by rushing a moped upgrade kit (the original Windows) onto the market. This was a Rube Goldberg contraption that, when bolted onto a three-speed bicycle, enabled it to keep up, just barely, with Apple-cars. The users had to wear goggles and were always picking bugs out of their teeth while Apple owners sped along in hermetically sealed comfort, sneering out the windows. But the Micro-mopeds were cheap, and easy to fix compared with the Apple-cars, and their market share waxed.
Eventually the big dealership came out with a full-fledged car: a colossal station wagon (Windows 95). It had all the aesthetic appeal of a Soviet worker housing block, it leaked oil and blew gaskets, and it was an enormous success. A little later, they also came out with a hulking off-road vehicle intended for industrial users (Windows NT) which was no more beautiful than the station wagon, and only a little more reliable.
Since then there has been a lot of noise and shouting, but little has changed. The smaller dealership continues to sell sleek Euro-styled sedans and to spend a lot of money on advertising campaigns. They have had GOING OUT OF BUSINESS! signs taped up in their windows for so long that they have gotten all yellow and curly. The big one keeps making bigger and bigger station wagons and ORVs.
On the other side of the road are two competitors that have come along more recently.
One of them (Be, Inc.) is selling fully operational Batmobiles (the BeOS). They are more beautiful and stylish even than the Euro-sedans, better designed, more technologically advanced, and at least as reliable as anything else on the market–and yet cheaper than the others.
With one exception, that is: Linux, which is right next door, and which is not a business at all. It’s a bunch of RVs, yurts, tepees, and geodesic domes set up in a field and organized by consensus. The people who live there are making tanks. These are not old-fashioned, cast-iron Soviet tanks; these are more like the M1 tanks of the U.S. Army, made of space-age materials and jammed with sophisticated technology from one end to the other. But they are better than Army tanks. They’ve been modified in such a way that they never, ever break down, are light and maneuverable enough to use on ordinary streets, and use no more fuel than a subcompact car. These tanks are being cranked out, on the spot, at a terrific pace, and a vast number of them are lined up along the edge of the road with keys in the ignition. Anyone who wants can simply climb into one and drive it away for free.
Customers come to this crossroads in throngs, day and night. Ninety percent of them go straight to the biggest dealership and buy station wagons or off-road vehicles. They do not even look at the other dealerships.
Of the remaining ten percent, most go and buy a sleek Euro-sedan, pausing only to turn up their noses at the philistines going to buy the station wagons and ORVs. If they even notice the people on the opposite side of the road, selling the cheaper, technically superior vehicles, these customers deride them cranks and half-wits.
The Batmobile outlet sells a few vehicles to the occasional car nut who wants a second vehicle to go with his station wagon, but seems to accept, at least for now, that it’s a fringe player.
The group giving away the free tanks only stays alive because it is staffed by volunteers, who are lined up at the edge of the street with bullhorns, trying to draw customers’ attention to this incredible situation. A typical conversation goes something like this:
Hacker with bullhorn: “Save your money! Accept one of our free tanks! It is invulnerable, and can drive across rocks and swamps at ninety miles an hour while getting a hundred miles to the gallon!”
Prospective station wagon buyer: “I know what you say is true…but…er…I don’t know how to maintain a tank!”
Bullhorn: “You don’t know how to maintain a station wagon either!”
Buyer: “But this dealership has mechanics on staff. If something goes wrong with my station wagon, I can take a day off work, bring it here, and pay them to work on it while I sit in the waiting room for hours, listening to elevator music.”
Bullhorn: “But if you accept one of our free tanks we will send volunteers to your house to fix it for free while you sleep!”
Buyer: “Stay away from my house, you freak!”
This is from In The Beginning… Was The Command Line. Published 1999.
You know, if I had a nickel for every time I quoted a chunk of a Stephenson book in the last few days I’d have two nickels. But it’s weird that it’s happened twice.
That’s all amusing, in its own belabored way. But think about the specifics. That little screed was published in 1999. I’m pretty sure there was no 3D accelerated GPU on the market that had functional Linux drivers, at that point. I guess that would be like the free tanks being unable to drive on many newly built roads.
I imagine the station wagon buyer pointing this out, to which the guy with the bullhorn would reply “You don’t need to drive on those roads!”
That’s always the Linux answer. Whatever it can’t do, you just don’t need to be doing. Until the driver support DOES come along, then they add it to the “see, Linux can do anything and everything” list, without feeling the slightest hint of self-awareness.
I could be wrong about the state of Linux drivers for GPUs, in the late 1990s. If I am, then fuck it. You could say I just wasted those three paragraphs. But there’s always something. Printers, scanners, webcams, other peripherals. The corner cases do get fixed eventually, and there are a lot less of them, in 2024. But in the 90s, it was a lot worse. There truly were plenty of things that you just couldn’t do with Linux. Given that, I find the characterization of Linux as an invincible supertank among shitty cars to be more than a bit stretched.
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.
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.
Microsoft owns part of LinkedIn.
Vertical integration.
Just be haply you don’t have a Facebook button. Yet.
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.
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
WORKS IN FIREFOX GUYS
Are you fucking kidding me? This is the best most useless information I’ve learned in a while
Default browser?
You mean Edge?
WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK
