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November 27, 2018
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Using Windows 10: When resizing a window using alt + space bar + click I get a small menu top left (minimize maximize ...) and a sound. I have silenced my computer to keep from going nuts. The menu is still there though, Does anyone know how I can fix this? I found a thread saying it would be fixed in the latest release, this thread was dated 10/2017, 1 year ago, the original post was 7 years old!! and!!! You know what I mean babe?

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Correct answer Trevor.Dennis

You realise that is an operating system function, and not Photoshop? If you press just the Alt key, then it toggles the menus as below. Pressing F would now open the File menu.

The same thing in File Explorer, except now it has a more graphic representation of what does what.

To get round your annoying tone issue — and I can see how that would drive you crazy — just hit and hold Ctrl before your hit Alt space, or better still, use Ctrl Space, and drag the cursor left and right to zoom in and out.

Kukurykus

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Moderator please assign Windows label to this thread (and delete my post).

jane-e

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mal25 wrote
Using Windows 10: When resizing a window using alt + space bar + click I get a small menu top left (minimize maximize ...) and a sound.

Alt + Spacebar is the keyboard shortcut for the menu you describe. Tapping the underlined letter brings up the next command, i.e., Alt + Space, then M for move, then use your arrow keys, followed by Enter to accept that you moved the window. No mouse is necessary, and I am not sure where your "click" comes in?

Alt by itself bring up the top level menus, as Trevor said. This has been true since I started using Windows with version 2.0, which was text only and years before most people were using a mouse. Everything was done with the keyboard in those days. Some things haven't changed, such as my favorite: Ctrl + F6 to cycle between open windows of a Windows application.

And by "operating system", Trevor means "Windows Operating System", as the Mac has always used a mouse and does not have these shortcuts, not even in Microsoft Office 365 which I have installed on both platforms.

Escape will close the menus if you open them accidentally.

Jane

davescm

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What is to fix. That menu is standard Windows function in any Windows app when pressing Alt+spacebar.
I've just confirmed it is the same in an app I wrote myself so is definitely not written into the application.

Dave

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mal25Author

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Hi Dave,

I tried that first, all I could find was how to turn off the windows key as a hotkey but this did not turn off all shortcuts just the one key. The above is perfect though they're next to each other on the keyboard I'm using.

Thanks

Trevor.Dennis

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You realise that is an operating system function, and not Photoshop? If you press just the Alt key, then it toggles the menus as below. Pressing F would now open the File menu.

The same thing in File Explorer, except now it has a more graphic representation of what does what.

To get round your annoying tone issue — and I can see how that would drive you crazy — just hit and hold Ctrl before your hit Alt space, or better still, use Ctrl Space, and drag the cursor left and right to zoom in and out.

M

mal25Author

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Thank you Trevor, they both work! I prefer to click through the standard increments. If I hit control first it still does go to zoom out when I alt, space, click.

Thanks again

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