CTRL-Shift-F9 in Windows Vista
Saturday, March 11, 2006 12:06 PM
When your in a database in Lotus Notes and your press the CTRL-Shift-F9 key combo then Lotus Notes will rebuild all of the view indexes in that database. This is how it has worked for as long as I have been working with Lotus Notes since V4.5. It's a key combo that a lot of admins are probably fairly familiar with.
What's this got to do with Windows Vista? Well as a member of the Vista beta I'm now running the latest Vista build here at home, so far it's been fairly stable for me and i've only had to bug about 10 items I've come across, the latest bug I've submitted is that the CTRL-Shift-F9 key combo has been taken over by the OS and no longer works in Lotus Notes. CTRL-Shift-F9 turns on and off the new Vista 'glass' effect. When you have Lotus Notes in focus and press the key combo then the index rebuild does not occur any more.
I'm curious as to what will happen with this bug report. Will MS change the key combo in time for the final build of Vista or will Lotus have to change the key combo it uses for the index rebuild?
Maybe we should just follow IBM's lead and all move to Linux. I know if they released a standalone version of Lotus Notes with the designer and admin clients for Linux I'd switch tomorrow.
Update : Anybody else who is on the Windows Vista beta can validate this bug report here.