Make the tab key only select text fields, not menus and other stuff

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  1. Posts : 39
    Windows 7 Professional 64 bit
       #1

    Make the tab key only select text fields, not menus and other stuff


    Hello,
    When I've got any kind of dialogue box open with text fields, I use the tab key to hop between the text fields. But, doing this also hops to any pop-up menus, which means I can change the thing in the pop-up menu using the up/down cursor keys, which might possibly be useful in a very few situations, I pretty much never want to do that. Is there a way to turn off this annoying behaviour?

    This is a system-wide behaviour - not application specific.

    I've searched around and can only find answers referring to alt-tabbing between apps.

    Thanks,
    Paul
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  2. Posts : 21,004
    Desk1 7 Home Prem / Desk2 10 Pro / Main lap Asus ROG 10 Pro 2 laptop Toshiba 7 Pro Asus P2520 7 & 10
       #2

    Hello and welcome Paul mate have you ried the IE pop up blocker - turn on?
    Tools > Pop up blocker > turn on or off could eba simple as that but incase it isn't I would definitely run these.

    http://www.superantispyware.com/

    http://www.malwarebytes.org/products/malwarebytes_free/

    http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/download/adwcleaner/

    download from bleeping computer – delete any rubbishthese find.

    then these if you haven't already



    https://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/1538-sfc-scannow-command-system-file-checker.html

    https://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/433-disk-check.html < use the /f switch option in Option 2 ifnecessary




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  3. Posts : 39
    Windows 7 Professional 64 bit
    Thread Starter
       #3

    ICit2lol...I think you either completely misread my question or posted this reply by mistake.

    Or is ICit2lol's reply some kind of spam? It certainly looks suspicious.

    - Paul
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  4. Posts : 2,177
    Windows 8.1 Pro x64
       #4

    John's (ICit2lol) reply certainly isn't spam - he is a very established member of the SevenForums family

    If i understand your question correctly then i don't think there is a way, when you Tab it always moves to the next item in the sequence.

    Regards,
    Jamie
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  5. Posts : 21,004
    Desk1 7 Home Prem / Desk2 10 Pro / Main lap Asus ROG 10 Pro 2 laptop Toshiba 7 Pro Asus P2520 7 & 10
       #5

    hellopaul said:
    ICit2lol...I think you either completely misread my question or posted this reply by mistake.

    Or is ICit2lol's reply some kind of spam? It certainly looks suspicious.

    - Paul
    Hum Paul well mate I am very surprised and not really impressed with your reply and what I posted was to check your system to and eliminate those causes as a maybe fault.
    Plus you realize that post are vetted by the moderators and any suspicion of wrong doing is very quickly dealt with - that includes spamming an other digressions if you care to read the general rules of the forum
    An option for you is to report my post that is up to you if you so wish.

    Anyway I asked for those checks, because getting pop ups is not an acceptable and very odd function unless one has made some settings for that to happen though why one should do that is beyond my comprehension.

    So the choice is yours if you do not trust anything I say or post then please say so and I shall leave the problem to someone else.
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  6. Posts : 1,514
    Win 7 Home Premium SP1 32 bit
       #6

    hellopaul, hello, the best thing is to use well known free programs as suggested to eliminate possible issues. Pls report back your results for further assistance.
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  7. Posts : 26,869
    Windows 11 Pro
       #7

    hellopaul said:
    ICit2lol...I think you either completely misread my question or posted this reply by mistake.

    Or is ICit2lol's reply some kind of spam? It certainly looks suspicious.

    - Paul
    Posts like that are really uncalled for and don't encourage more help. ICit2lol is a very well respected member and always helpful. If you post further, I would recommend choosing your words better.
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  8. Posts : 21,004
    Desk1 7 Home Prem / Desk2 10 Pro / Main lap Asus ROG 10 Pro 2 laptop Toshiba 7 Pro Asus P2520 7 & 10
       #8

    Well my sentiments entirely essenbe what I would like to know is what was even in the slightest bit like spam in my post because everything and links I suggested is / are well known and used by many people in this and other forums.
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  9. Posts : 26,869
    Windows 11 Pro
       #9

    I wouldn't be overly concerned. There was nothing at all wrong with your post. I use many of those tools you suggested. I'm not sure how anyone would think those tools were spam.
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  10. Posts : 21,004
    Desk1 7 Home Prem / Desk2 10 Pro / Main lap Asus ROG 10 Pro 2 laptop Toshiba 7 Pro Asus P2520 7 & 10
       #10

    essenbe said:
    I wouldn't be overly concerned. There was nothing at all wrong with your post. I use many of those tools you suggested. I'm not sure how anyone would think those tools were spam.
    Yes my friend well the lack of response from the OP has me thinking perhaps it isn't so much of a problem or that he would rather deal with someone else. Either way it is no skin off my nose. :)
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