Keyboard Shortcut

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Disable/uninstall "tour" from Startup progs. (tour is
....Windows32\tourstart.exe - look for a direct or shortcut key in startup
progs, uncheck it).
Len

"John Porcella" <bronson69@btinternet.com> wrote in message
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>I teach a computerised accounting software package to adults. Since I have
> found from years of teaching that it is quicker for the students not to
> use
> the mouse at all, I train them on all of the relevant keyboard
> shortcuts/hot
> keys/accelerator keys etc.
>
> This was fine when the college network was Windows 98. We have recently
> moved over to XP and there is one thing that I cannot figure out how to
> do,
> so I wondered if somebody here had an idea?
>
> After logging in, a yellow box appears in the bottom right hand corner,
> which welcomes people to XP and invites them to go on a tour. I want to
> get
> rid of this using only keyboard commands. For other open windows, it
> would
> be a simple matter of ALT+F4 to close it down. However, even performing
> ALT+TAB (to switch between open applications) does not find it. I want to
> avoid having to go down Control+ALT+Delete and finding it somewhere in
> there
> (I am not even sure what it would be called, even if it is in the task
> manager).
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Thanks very much in advance.
>
>
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> John Porcella
>
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