Alt+O Accelerator for OK Button on Windows 7

Question

I have switched from Windows XP to Windows 7. In the dialog boxes in one program, the OK button on Windows XP used to have an "Alt+O" accelerator with it. In Windows 7, this key combination no longer presses the OK button.

Are there any settings in Windows 7 that I can change to get the XP behavior back?

The program in question is TortiseSVN. The commit dialog box in particular is where I want this. The default "enter presses OK" behavior doesn't work, because enter also enters a newline in the text box in the dialog. In XP, it was easy to type my entry and press alt+o to commit the changes. Now I have to type my entry, press tab a couple times, and press enter.

This is what I see in XP:

This is what I see in 7:

In general, alt+ works in Windows 7. But for this dialog box, for some reason, Windows 7 has chosen to turn off all the accelerators.

Answer 1

Have you tried Ctrl + Enter?

Since it's not listed on Window's own page on keyboard shortcuts:

• Ctrl + Tab: Move forward through tabs
• Ctrl + Shift + Tab: Move back through tabs
• Tab: Move forward through options
• Shift + Tab: Move back through options
• Alt + underlined letter: Perform the command (or select the option) that goes with that letter
• Enter: Replaces clicking the mouse for many selected commands
• Spacebar: Select or clear the check box if the active option is a check box
• Arrow keys: Select a button if the active option is a group of option buttons
• F1: Display Help
• F4: Display the items in the active list
• Backspace: Open a folder one level up if a folder is selected in the Save As or Open dialog box

So if there's no underlined letter under the O, it's not within the standard controls of Windows 7

And after some more Googling, it seems that you're not the only one experiencing this problem