Yandros on 28/6/2012 at 19:42
I am a Paint Shop Pro user as I imagine many of you are. Beginning with Vista, you may have noticed that the Ctrl-Shift-0 shortcut to go from 8bit to 24bit colors no longer works. Since I use this all the time when loading a GIF or indexed PCX texture for editing, I had gotten used to mousing through the menus to do this. Well, there's a way to get back that beloved keyboard shortcut!
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http://support.microsoft.com/kb/967893) http://support.microsoft.com/kb/967893
It works for me on Win7 and I'll be doing it on my Vista machine tonight. I wonder if there are unintended consequences, though?
ZylonBane on 28/6/2012 at 21:15
Oh, sweet, that'd been bugging me for a while now. I just figured it was inevitable software rot from running an 11-year-old program on a modern OS.
LarryG on 28/6/2012 at 22:48
Très cool! Seems a trifle aggressive to assign that unilaterally when, as I suspect, over 99% of the Windows installations are uni-lingual and have no need for it. I think you were experiencing the unintended consequences of that MS developer's decision already. Unless you need to hot switch between language keyboard layouts, what could be the harm of removing the hot switch feature?
Nameless Voice on 28/6/2012 at 23:08
For extra fun, Windows 7 loves to keep the English (United States) locale installed, no matter how many times you delete it. Suddenly getting the US keyboard layout because you hit some random hotkey is not actually fun.
Yandros on 4/9/2020 at 01:46
Necroing my own post, looking to get this working under Windows 10 but the Microsoft article linked above now redirects to a similar Windows 10 article which didn't really help me. I found (
https://excelatfinance.com/xlf18/xlf-change-key-sequence.php) this article which is aimed at freeing up Ctrl-Shift-0 for Excel, but it works great for PSP7 as well.