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Hotkeys (or keyboard shortcuts) are globally defined key combinations which
allow the user to stop a device or return that device back to operation,
using keyboard commands. Thus, using Hotkeys removes the need for mouse
movement to perform a desired action. Users simply press the defined key combination to:
- Stop a device
- Reactivate a stopped, but not removed, device
- Browse the content of a drive on a device
- Stop all displayable drives
This provides an ideal solution for those who spend much of their time
working with the keyboard, such as programmers or technical writers. For many
people, it is more convenient and quicker to stop devices using keyboard
commands, because it lets them make those choices without taking their
hands off the keyboard.
A Hotkey is a combination of a modifier key (Ctrl, Alt, Ctrl Alt,
Winkey and so on) and main key ("A" "B", "1", "F5" and so on). Hotkey
examples: "Winkey S, Ctrl Alt A, Alt Shift F5, etc.
Zentimo gives 2 handy ways of ejecting a device with a hot-key:
- Displaying the stop menu with a hot-key (default)
You can call the stop menu by pressing a hotkey (Alt+Shift+S by default).
If there is more than one device in the menu, you can choose the required
device with the "Up"\"Down" keys and press the "Enter" key to stop the
selected device.
Would you like to browse a device drive using the keyboard?
To do it call the menu with a hotkey, select the device and press "Ctrl+B".
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"Stop immediately" technology.
When you are calling the stop menu with a hotkey, if there is only one
device in the menu it can be stopped automatically without
displaying the stop menu. To activate this behavior go to the program
options -> "Global Hotkeys" tab and enable the "Stop immediately" check box.
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"Stop-All".
Specify a hotkey to quickly stop all devices which are displayed in the stop menu.
Zentimo also allows the assignment of separate hotkeys to enable
stop\return back for individual devices. This may be useful if you have a
device that needs to be stopped much more often than your other devices.
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In order to close the stop menu that is called by a hotkey,
just press "ESC" button!
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To change or add a hotkey to call the menu or for "Stop immediately",
proceed to the program options -> "Global hotkeys" tab and enable there
"Use Stop Menu Hot Key" option (If it hasn't been enabled yet) as well as
setup key combination in the drop down lists below.
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To assign a hotkey to stop a certain device, call
the Device properties dialog
and at the "Common" tab enable "Use separated global hotkey for
stopping the device" check box and choose a key combination for
stopping the device below. The same hotkey you can use to activate
back stopped but not removed device yet.
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To change or add a hotkey to stop all displayable devices
proceed to the program options -> "Global hotkeys" tab and enable there
"Use "Stop All" Hot Key" option as well as
setup key combination in the drop down lists below.
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