Originally Posted By: Roger
Originally Posted By: Dignan
opting instead for Ctrl+F4, which is a weird choice because Alt+F4 is the shortcut for closing an entire app

Not really. Alt+ is for app-level operations; Ctrl+ is for window-level operations. Compare with Alt+Tab and Ctrl+Tab. Also Alt+Space and Ctrl+Space for MDI applications. It makes sense if you think like mid-80s IBM, which is where most of the odd key combinations (Shift+Ins, Ctrl+Ins, etc. for clipboard operations, etc.) come from.

Yes, I understand that, I was more speaking to the redundancy of using Ctrl+F4 when there's Ctrl+W, which does the exact same thing and can actually be hit with one hand. Also, Ctrl+F4 doesn't act the same way in just general Windows Explorer, so IMO it's an inferior shortcut (it appears to jump the cursor to the address bar if you have a folder open).
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Matt