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Quickie: Disable shift-shift for Google Desktop
This has been driving me nuts. I’m typing along, and somehow all my Google gadgets come to the top and I lose focus. It’s the shift-shift shortcut. Google’s page on this describes it but has no info on how to disable it. They talk about the other shortcuts of course… Searching the web found a ton of people with the same problem all begging for help. I finally found the answer!
- Go to your Google Desktop prefs (right-click its icon in the tray and do Options)
- On the Display panel at the bottom for the Taskbar Gadgets Button section choose “Show icon only” and save your prefs. I bet you had this thing hidden like me, right? To save space in your taskbar?
- Click on the down arrow button in the new Google icon (looks like four colored boxes stuck together) and there it is! Choose Enable Hotkey to disable the damn thing.
- Now you can go back to prefs and hide the button again.
So to disable all the Google Desktop hotkeys, you need to (a) turn off ctrl-ctrl in Options, (b) (via the above Google link), edit the registry and reboot to disable the ctrl-alt-G, and (c) do the instructions I have above to disable shift-shift.
Hey Google, want to make this a little more consistent in a future release?
