WinKey - Windows Key Assignment Freeware

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samir — Sat, 12 Aug 2006 00:15:43 GMT

grate job. it is realy very usefull.

re: WinKey - Windows Key Assignment Freeware

Levent — Wed, 28 Mar 2007 20:51:51 GMT

This is a great utility I have been using for a while. However, I just found out that the developer discontinued this product. Whatever that means for us users... (http://www.copernic.com/en/support/faq-winkey.html) (or hit winkey+ctrl+f9 if you have winkey installed ;)

I recently noticed a subtle "bug" with this software. It doesn't keep the environment variables intact as a program is launched. You can try this:

1. Open a command window (go to startmenu>run and type cmd)

2. Type in echo %PATH%

3. Now set a shortcut in WinKey for command windows. The executable is C:\windows\system32\cmd.exe

4. Now bring up the command windows using WinKey shortcut.

5. Type in echo %PATH%

See the difference?

re: WinKey - Windows Key Assignment Freeware

noahc — Fri, 27 Apr 2007 02:20:47 GMT

Levent,

It is normal when a new process is launched for the environment variables to be copied to the new process' environment, and not copied back to the system. This is the correct default behavoir of new processes. If you want to get around this, there are tools like JPSoft's 4NT that let you modify system environment variables.

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