REDUCING THE KEYSTROKES WITH ‘STICKY KEYS’
(For Windows XP Users)
When you have the use of one hand only, it is often
extremely difficult, or even impossible, for some people to hold down certain
key combinations such as ‘Ctrl-Alt-Del’, (to bring up the Windows Task
Manager), ‘Ctrl-Shift-E’ in Outlook Express, (to bring up the ‘Create Folder’
dialogue box), or when a shortcut requires a modifier key, such as Shift, Ctrl,
Alt, or the Windows Logo key plus another, for example ‘shift + t’. Even typing a capital letter can often be a challenge.
If that is the case, here is what you should do:
1.
From the Start button go to Control Panel, click on Accessibility
Options. In the box that appears, choose the Keyboard tab and tick
the box marked Use StickyKeys.
(For Windows 98/95 users the keystrokes will be Start, Settings, Control
Panel, Accessibility Options, Keyboard, Use
StickyKeys)
2.
Then click on the Settings box.
These are further options. We recommend that you select the first two and last
two but not the third because selecting this option as well would mean that
anyone else using your computer could intuitively cancel the StickyKeys option m rely by using any shortcut key
combination i.e. any two keys together.
3.
Click OK for Settings and then OK again.
An icon (a group of four boxes) appears in the Status Bar area in the bottom
right hand corner of your screen. This is purely to tell you that StickyKeys
is activated – neither a left or right click actually does anything.)
The
effect of this can be seen if you type the word ‘the’ as it would appear at the
start of a sentence, i.e. ‘The’. Normally, you would hold down the shift key
and hit the ‘t’ – the result would be a capital
‘T’. With StickyKeys
activated, however, hitting the Shift once (without holding it down), followed
by the letter ‘t’ key. This gives ‘T’.
Another
example is Ctrl-Alt-Del. Using StickyKeys this becomes easy. Just hit Shift then Ctrl, then
hit Shift again followed by Alt, and finally, hit Shift
again followed by
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