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Help!

Dear Microsoft,

We've been pals for a long time, right? You put out all of these great technologies, and I help others to use them within their own organization. We have a good thing going, you and me.

But, I have a problem. You see, whenever I press this one special key on my keyboard, mostly by accident due to its proximity to ESC and ~, you give me an excuse to stop working and go get coffee. This isn't very productive. I don't always want an excuse to get coffee.

Can you please add a Cancel button or something? Your modal dialog is not very friendly at times.

BFF,

-Jason

Print | posted on Monday, September 15, 2008 2:24 PM | Filed Under [ .NET ]

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# re: Help!

What I've always wondered is why this can't happen in the background? It's opening another window anyway--block *that* thread if you need to block one. Kind of unbelievable that this has never been improved.
9/18/2008 12:33 AM | Dan Ciruli

# re: Help!

I disabled my F1 key for this very reason.

:)
9/19/2008 12:32 PM | Jay R. Wren
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# re: Help!

That doesn't surprise me about you, Jay! However, I do sometimes use F1 for what it's intended for, so totally disabling it doesn't entirely satisfy my story. Maybe there's a way to set the help key to CTRL-F1 (Bear form, RAWR)....
9/19/2008 12:45 PM | jfollas

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