January 9, 200719 yr Hey guys,Quick question for ya all, I've recently gotten a old-ish laptop from work, however there is no windows start button. Is there a way in the reg that i can bind..lets say "altgr" to be the start button??Thanks in advance
January 9, 200719 yr Not answering your question,The WinKey and Menu keys have similar (not quite the same but should be close enough) functioning keyboard shortcuts.You may use Ctrl + Esc to toggle the start menu; Shift + F10 may be used to show context menu.
January 9, 200719 yr again not an answer to your question but rather a possible solution...try removing any hidden update folders from c:\windows and reinstall ie7, that should bring back your start menu i believe
January 11, 200719 yr I've never known any version of Windows to not have the Start button. Perhaps it was Reshacked out? Which version of Windows is it?
January 11, 200719 yr I've never known any version of Windows to not have the Start button. Perhaps it was Reshacked out? Which version of Windows is it?Versions of Windows released prior to Windows 95 did not have a start button.I assumed Windows XP was being used (as this is the "Microsoft Widows XP" forum).I also assumed that the original poster was referring to something different than what he intended (that is why I did not attempt to answer the question).
January 11, 200719 yr I think he was saying that he hasn't a win key on his keyboard, physically.Of course, I'm agree, it's Windows flag key is missing on his new laptop.The best is to use Ctrl+Esc to open start menu, just that only.No Win + ... for shortcuts (for example Win + R (Run) doesn't work with Ctrl+Esc+R)
January 12, 200719 yr I've never known any version of Windows to not have the Start button. Perhaps it was Reshacked out? Which version of Windows is it?Versions of Windows released prior to Windows 95 did not have a start button.Correction: I've never known any version of Windows prior to 95 to not have the Start button.
January 12, 200719 yr Author Thanks for all the reply's.........Ok now i feel like an id*** i really should have re-checked my original post before i posted it. What i meant was there is no Physical Windows Key on the laptop. My bad Sorry Edited January 12, 200719 yr by mstester
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