Hello and welcome to my hideously-named blog.  In most blog's first post the author writes some 'about me' information.  I'd like to break that trend and start with something useful.

Here at work I have two monitors connected to my main dev machine.  Also, I typically run three or four Terminal Server (also called Remote Desktop Connection) windows full-screen to interact with other machines.  On the whole, this is a great setup. 

I'm also a relentless shortcut-key user.  For example, most people don't know that pressing Alt and Space together brings up the window options for the current window.  I use this a hundred times a day.  Conveniently, the TS settings allow me to send keyboard shortcuts through the TS window, so that I can happily use the shortcuts to control the remote machine.

When I want to minimize the TS window itself, though, I have a problem.  My Alt-Space-N command is sent through the window, and does not operate on the window.

The solution is this:

• AutoHotkey (a well known hotkey re-mapper)
• this guy's script
• the TS window's Ctrl-Alt-Break shortcut

The TS window's Ctrl-Alt-Break shortcut changes the full-screen TS window to regular window, and when the TS window is regular, it consumes shortcut key commands, and does not send them to the remote machine.  The AutoHotkey program and that guy's script afford a convenient way to move the TS window between monitors.

Hooray!