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July 5

Google Analytics

I have a Google Analytics account for an organization whose web site I maintain, but I don't know how it was installed. Now I would like to add the capability to another site. Searching the web, I can't find out how to do it. When I get into it from my dashboard, it shows the existing site but there is no indication of how I could add another. What can I do? Thanks, --Halcatalyst (talk) 14:51, 5 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Google Analytics refers to websites as "properties" ([1]), mainly because you can apply analytics to devices or applications in addition to websites. So in order to add a new website to track, you go to Admin at the top and look at the Property column in the middle ([2]). Click the drop down and at the bottom, click "Create new property", which will bring up a new page for you to fill out. When it's time to add the tracking code to the site, this help article will show you how. Hope that helps. clpo13_(talk) 18:49, 5 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]

This worked. Thank you! --Halcatalyst (talk) 23:28, 5 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Shortcut keys (in Windows 7) Is it free or already taken? (and If taken, then by which app?)

When I am about to assign a shortcut key combination to something, in Windows 7, then I want to avoid the ones already in use by the system or by other applications.
Is there an easy way to see all current assignments of shortcut keys? (In Windows7).
--89.8.41.244 (talk) 22:54, 5 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Good question, there might be a utility somewhere that might show these. Otherwise Keyboard shortcuts at support.microsoft.com should be helpful. - 220 of ^Borg 11:58, 6 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Well, yes, but that Keyboard shortcuts is a static list of standard, default, basic keyboard shortcuts that comes with the Windows7 OS, and some of its standard apps. The problem is that those key combinations will often be redefined, deleted or permanently or temporarily overridden (hijacked) by third party apps. And, of course there will also allways be a lot of completely new key‑combinations used as either global or window specific shortcuts by third party apps.
So what I need, and also everybody else needs — who want to make a new keyboard shortcut for some function or another — is a dynamic (real time) overview of all currently active shortcuts.
--(OP)178.232.238.17 (talk) 15:33, 6 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Generally this is impossible. There is no central registry of key combinations in Windows. Instead, each program is notified when the keyboard state changes. To figure out which key combinations it responds to, you have to reverse-engineer the code. The best an automated tool could do would be to recognize certain common ways of handling shortcut keys (for example, accelerator resources in Win32 programs), but it would miss a lot. -- BenRG (talk) 19:36, 6 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]

I bet something in Sysinternals will let you find this out, though I don't know for sure. --71.110.8.102 (talk) 18:54, 6 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]