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Forums -> UltraMon™ -> Copy Hotkeys to Another User (and Computer)
mark   2009-06-26 04:48
I am a longtime satisfied UltraMon registered user. Over the years I have developed a number of scripts mapped to HotKeys that are critical to my productivity. For example Alt + Up/Down/Left/Right are mapped to Snap[Top/Bottom/Left/Right].vbs respectively.

To make setting up a new computer as easy as possible I have the scripts in a Subversion repository. Because the width of the Options box is limited I check out to a short path. ;-)

. . . C:\ums\SnapBottom.vbs C:\ums\SnapLeft.vbs C:\ums\SnapRight.vbs C:\ums\SnapTop.vbs C:\ums\SysInfo.vbs C:\ums\z 640 x 480.vbs C:\ums\z 800 x 600.vbs C:\ums\z1024 x 768.vbs C:\ums\z1280 x 1024.vbs

I guess what I'd really like to have are these files:

. . . C:\ums\Hotkeys\alt_up.hotkey C:\ums\Hotkeys\alt_down.hotkey C:\ums\Hotkeys\alt_left.hotkey C:\ums\Hotkeys\alt_right.hotkey . . .

On the new Vista machine I'm setting up I would just copy these *.hotkey files to these two folders:

C:\Users\Mark\AppData\Roaming\Realtime Soft\UltraMon\3.0.5\HotKeys\

C:\Users\MarkAdmin\AppData\Roaming\Realtime Soft\UltraMon\3.0.5\HotKeys\

Does this make any sense? Thanks.
Christian Studer   2009-06-26 08:01
That's not supported, but if the location of the scripts is the same on the new system, you could export the hotkey settings from the registry and import the settings on the new system (under both user accounts).

To do this run regedit.exe, right-click the key HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Realtime Soft\UltraMon\<version>\Hotkeys and select Export from the menu. To import the settings on the new system just double-click the .reg file.

If you install a later version of UltraMon you could just edit the .reg file and change the version part of the key name as necessary. This will work fine as long as the format of the hotkey values hasn't been changed in the new release.

Christian Studer - www.realtimesoft.com
mark   2009-06-29 14:55
Ok. Consider it a feature request then.
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