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I know that the behavior of shadows can be profoundly different depending upon whether you selected the text placeholder before issuing the shadow command or selected the text itself by dragging across all of the letters. Do you know which you did? Also, do you have Adobe Acrobat? If so, try printing to a PDF file and inspecting the results there. If they show up there, you might have success simply by using it as an intermediary: print to a PDF file and then go from Acrobat to your printer.

Let us know if either of these tactics make a difference…

Yes, I too remove all of recent programs. I don’t need my computer reminding me what I just used and if I opened it once, I think I could do it again!

I am trying very hard to make peace with the Start Menu. Some of the workarounds are minor (I can get to my Run line by pressing and holding Win while I type R instead of Win and then R as it used to be), some are a bit tedious but I’ll live (I can get up to Favorites with Win | Right | Up), and some will require diligent management (like organizing the Start Menu so that all will show without scrolling — scrolling my list of Programs is unacceptable).

All of the third-party tools I looked at for addressing this introduced compromises that were unsatisfactory. So I will try to make peace with the native implementation.

I will say that the Aero Flip 3D is killer and my macro program can program the otherwise arcane keystrokes to activate it. So now I just press the ScrLk key and it immediately pops up. For the first time in 25 years, ScrLk fills a useful purpose. Imagine that…

Rick A.

Ted: I have been hunting down programs right and left, including the two that you suggest. Astoundingly, neither program includes keystroke functionality, which, as you know, is my sole objective in this mission.

Joe: Many thanks for the suggestions and list of shortcuts. I will perform due diligence with all of them…

Thanks, Jock — Typing Excel is three characters too many, and while I know that sounds anal, it becomes quite unweildy with PowerPoint, Dreamweaver, and Premiere Elements! As for pinning, I am a big fan and pin about eight or nine items there. Ultimately, that translates to way too much “up-arrowing”.

But I will consult Help to make sure I am not overlooking anything. I just hope that whatever I learn can co-exist with my non-negotiable demand for efficient keyboard access to my programs.

RA

Alan, I can get you this far:

– Run a secondary presentation when you advance once with your wireless remote.

Is that good enough? If so, this involves your inserting the secondary presentation as an OLE object (Insert | Object). Find it on your hard drive, click Link or not (depending upon your preference) and choose to show a thumbnail or not (ditto). With the object selected, you will notice a fifth choice when you ask for an animation to be applied: Object Actions. Choose Show.

You have essentially placed the showing of the secondary presentation into the animation sequence of that slide. When it is done, or when you press Esc to end it, you will return to the primary slide deck, ready to do whatever comes next.

Rick Altman
Author, Why Most PowerPoint Presentations Suck
http://www.BetterPresenting.com

I’m with Wendell, Mr. Goldstein: I don’t know of any way to do that. The closest I can get you is to suggest that Nested be converted into a video file and imported as such. Then it would play at whatever size you wanted. But the inserted object’s size is not significant of anything; in fact, I ask for them to come in as icons and then I drag them off the slide altogether…

Ken, many thanks — I had forgotten all about that back-door Safe Mode maneuver to take permission of folders. That worked great.

I guess I’m a little confused as to just what you are trying to do.

The screenshot I posted has the actual settings of those keys to the right of the columns shown.
WindowsSystem32Config are folders within Windows itself, not the registry.

Your screenshot was taken within Windows. Were I able to start Windows, my quest would be over; however, this entire issue is caused by a corrupted version of the OS that makes entry into Windows impossible. The five files I cite in that Windows subfolder are the ones that actually comprise the Registry and on this system, that is as close as I’ll get to it.

I guess I’m a little confused as to just what you are trying to do.

The screenshot I posted has the actual settings of those keys to the right of the columns shown.
WindowsSystem32Config are folders within Windows itself, not the registry.

Your screenshot was taken within Windows. Were I able to start Windows, my quest would be over; however, this entire issue is caused by a corrupted version of the OS that makes entry into Windows impossible. The five files I cite in that Windows subfolder are the ones that actually comprise the Registry and on this system, that is as close as I’ll get to it.

I guess I’m a little confused as to just what you are trying to do.

The screenshot I posted has the actual settings of those keys to the right of the columns shown.
WindowsSystem32Config are folders within Windows itself, not the registry.

Your screenshot was taken within Windows. Were I able to start Windows, my quest would be over; however, this entire issue is caused by a corrupted version of the OS that makes entry into Windows impossible. The five files I cite in that Windows subfolder are the ones that actually comprise the Registry and on this system, that is as close as I’ll get to it.

I guess I’m a little confused as to just what you are trying to do.

The screenshot I posted has the actual settings of those keys to the right of the columns shown.
WindowsSystem32Config are folders within Windows itself, not the registry.

Your screenshot was taken within Windows. Were I able to start Windows, my quest would be over; however, this entire issue is caused by a corrupted version of the OS that makes entry into Windows impossible. The five files I cite in that Windows subfolder are the ones that actually comprise the Registry and on this system, that is as close as I’ll get to it.

I guess I’m a little confused as to just what you are trying to do.

The screenshot I posted has the actual settings of those keys to the right of the columns shown.
WindowsSystem32Config are folders within Windows itself, not the registry.

Your screenshot was taken within Windows. Were I able to start Windows, my quest would be over; however, this entire issue is caused by a corrupted version of the OS that makes entry into Windows impossible. The five files I cite in that Windows subfolder are the ones that actually comprise the Registry and on this system, that is as close as I’ll get to it.

I guess I’m a little confused as to just what you are trying to do.

The screenshot I posted has the actual settings of those keys to the right of the columns shown.
WindowsSystem32Config are folders within Windows itself, not the registry.

Your screenshot was taken within Windows. Were I able to start Windows, my quest would be over; however, this entire issue is caused by a corrupted version of the OS that makes entry into Windows impossible. The five files I cite in that Windows subfolder are the ones that actually comprise the Registry and on this system, that is as close as I’ll get to it.

I guess I’m a little confused as to just what you are trying to do.

The screenshot I posted has the actual settings of those keys to the right of the columns shown.
WindowsSystem32Config are folders within Windows itself, not the registry.

Your screenshot was taken within Windows. Were I able to start Windows, my quest would be over; however, this entire issue is caused by a corrupted version of the OS that makes entry into Windows impossible. The five files I cite in that Windows subfolder are the ones that actually comprise the Registry and on this system, that is as close as I’ll get to it.

I guess I’m a little confused as to just what you are trying to do.

The screenshot I posted has the actual settings of those keys to the right of the columns shown.
WindowsSystem32Config are folders within Windows itself, not the registry.

Your screenshot was taken within Windows. Were I able to start Windows, my quest would be over; however, this entire issue is caused by a corrupted version of the OS that makes entry into Windows impossible. The five files I cite in that Windows subfolder are the ones that actually comprise the Registry and on this system, that is as close as I’ll get to it.