My old computer got me from an upgrade to the brand new Windows 10, however many years ago that was, to about 6 weeks ago when it died. I got a new one from the local independent repair shop I use and had them install Windows 10 Professional. I have backups of my program set up files and data, and files telling me how I tweaked those programs. As you can imagine, I did a lot of customizing of Windows and the software I use over the years I had that old computer, and some of the tweaks I want on the new computer, a Lenovo ThinkPad T14 Gen 2.
If I need to break these up into separate requests for help, I will certainly do that.
#1–The old computer’s F2 key would let you rename the file you had highlighted. For example: joyride.exe was the original name. If I clicked F2, “joyride” was highlighted and I could rename that without losing the extension. On the new computer, I want to program the F12 key (user defined function) to do that. Is that posssible? I can do it the usual way, but with tremor that is getting worse, it’s easier to use a function key than to right-lick and then try to get the cursor on “rename”.
#2–On the old computer I could set window sizes and locations, and when I closed the window and reopened it, or when I shut down the computer–not hibernate or sleep–and turned it back on and reopened those programs, the windows would reopen exactly where and like I last closed them. I have an old note I wrote myself that says Winaero Tweaker does this. I downloaded the program and can’t find that tweak in the current version. I’ve searched for solutions, but what I’ve found seem to be for the current session only.
#3–On the old computer I had the taskbar locked so the icons stayed in the same order. I can’t find any notes on how I did this. It seems to me that it should be available–blind users d0n’t want things moving that they didn’t initiate.
#4–Starting with Windows 3.1 and all the Windows versions since, I’ve had the Downloads and My Documents folders at C:\Data\Downloads and C:\Data\My Documents. I no longer remember how to tell Windows to use those 2 folders as the defaults instead of the ones at C:\Users\ etc.
Thank you all for your help!
