Andrew Langford

Hi Andrea, try clicking the Start button and searching for Teams or Outlook. When it shows up, right-click it and click Open file location. That should open up the primary location with the .exe file. You can right-click the .exe file, click Properties, and copy the Target field to the clipboard. Then press the Keybreeze hotkey, run add, enter a name, such as Teams or Outlook, and then paste the target.

Technically this is possible by using the Extract method when you install it, as you could extract all the files to a network location. However, running the application or storing the settings on a network location would be extremely slow, as the app regularly saves settings to the history.json file, autocomplete.txt, and other files as you are actively using it.

My recommendation would be to run it locally for the best performance. Then use a backup utility to periodically back up the %appdata%\keybreeze5 folder to a separate location.

It's difficult to tell without knowing which version you came from and which folders from the old version were copied over. This article -- https://keybreeze.com/forum/post/23 -- has steps on how to transfer settings between machines, along with updating from version 4 to 5. Copying the entire Keybreeze4 or Keybreeze5 folder is recommended and is expected to work, but if you copied some folders/files and not everything, such as the skins folder, that will most likely cause some issues.

I would recommend closing Keybreeze Desktop, renaming the %appdata%\keybreeze5 folder (back up the file to a separate location as well), uninstalling it, and then installing a fresh version with the default settings. You can then compare the working settings in the new %appdata%\keybreeze5 folder with the non-working settings in the previous folder that you renamed. A quick fix would likely be to copy the keywords.json, lettercommands.json, notes fol...
in License enhancements in Keybreeze Pro 5.5

Do you see the following skins when you run options as a keyword and click the Skin tab? If you copied the old appdata folder over, I'm wondering if it's using old skins that are no longer compatible.

Are you able to save keywords, notes, and other settings? Is it just changing skins that doesn't save?

Hi Jeff,

Did you try following the steps in this post -- https://keybreeze.com/forum/post/23? What is the exact error you are getting? And which action triggers that error?

Thanks,

Andrew

Thanks for the feedback! You can type options as a keyword to open the Options window, which has settings for Autoindex and Search. The Autoindex functionality will give you suggestions as you are typing a keyword. The Search functionality will not give you suggestions while you are typing. It will only search for that entry after you press Enter/Control/Shift (this is configurable on the General tab).

The default folders for Autoindex should be Desktop, Start Menu, Start Menu (All users), and Documents. The default folders for Search should be Desktop and Documents. You can add any folders to this list to expand the functionality.

Let me know if you have any questions while you customize it!

Not a way to do that currently, but I've used this site in the past for timezone conversions -- https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/converter.html. Are you wanting to do this from a macro or text function? Or are you wanting to press the hotkey and enter a command like time+4h or 6pm CT to IST? Google can actually handle the latter --  https://www.google.com/search?q=6+pm+ct+to+ist. You could run that from a Keybreeze letter command, or just type it into the Keybreeze window if you configured it to search the web for unrecognized entries. That's probably going to be the fastest way to convert a time between two timezones. You can also search for current ist time, and Google will tell you what time it is in that timezone.

Hi Brian,

Good to hear from you! I tried ecarr's suggestion with a test Powershell script, and the prompt appeared in my environment. The target of my keyword is:

C:\windows\system32\windowspowershell\v1.0\powershell.exe c:\test\test.ps1

The text of this Powershell script is:

$User = Read-Host -Prompt 'What is your name?'
Write-Host "You entered, '$User'"

When I run this from the Start > Run dialog box, I get the prompt, enter my name, and then it closes. When I run this from Keybreeze, I get the same behavior, which appears to be expected when running Powershell scripts from outside the console -- https://stackoverflow.com/questions/16739322/how-to-keep-the-shell-window-open-after-running-a-powershell-script.

I was able to keep the Powershell script window open by changing my target to the followi...
in License enhancements in Keybreeze Pro 5.5

Hi Steve, you can use a portable version by downloading the setup file and running through the installation wizard. One of the steps will ask if you want to install it or extract the files. Select the option to extract the files to a folder on your PC or a USB drive, and then it will be portable.

You can't really do that with a single hotkey, but you can select the text, press CTRL + C, press the Keybreeze hotkey, press CTRL + V, and press Enter. If it's an unrecognized command, it will search the web for that entry by default. If you have a lot of saved keywords, it may autoselect one of your existing ones. If that happens, you can press s and a space after you press the hotkey, and then press CTRL + V. The s prefix will invoke the letter command to search the web. These can be configured by typing options as a keyword or by typing add as a keyword and then pressing the Letter Command tab.