Send Windows Key
(ver 1.1)
Freeware


The Windows logo key is a keyboard key which was 
originally introduced on the Microsoft Natural 
keyboard in 1994. This key became a standard key 
on PC keyboards. When pressed with no other key, 
the Windows key displays the Start menu/screen. 
When pressed in conjunction with another key, it 
provides shortcuts to several Windows functions. 

Oddly enough, Microsoft didn’t add a special code to 
the SendKeys method that would allow you to access 
the Windows key.

Send Windows Key is a Batch File utility that is 
designed to emulate having pressed the "Windows" 
key on your keyboard.  It can also be directly 
run from the command line, or from a VBS script
(examples are included with the program). The 
32-bit version of the program is "SendWKey.exe".

Syntax:  SendWKey.exe [keycombo] [optional_instruction]

Note that SendWKey used the "#" symbol to represent 
the Windows key.  For example, "sendwkey #m" would 
cause all windows to minimize.  "sendwkey m" (no #)
would instead cause an "m" to be sent to the command
line.  An example of using the optional instruction is 
"sendwkey # r".  The Sart Menu would first open, and 
then the Run dialog box would launch (because "r" is a 
shortcut instruction within the Start Menu).  Non-letter 
keys can be indicated with their name in parenthesis.

CAUTION: If you run SendWKey without any parameters,
the program will create a HTML file listing common 
shortcuts in the folder you called the program from.
("_Example_Parameters.html")


== Run from any folder, no installation required ==