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Setting Hotkey for an Application

vdraceil
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Hi, is it possible to set a hotkey for an application by doing some registry changes in Win XP or Vista??
For example if i press Ctrl+Shift+E i want MS Excel to open..something like that.
Mar 14 '09 #1
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DonRayner
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Find the shortcut to your application in your startmenu and right click on it. If it's not in your start menu do a "copy / paste shortcut" of the program executable to create a shortcut. Right click on your new shortcut.

Select properties and then click or tab into the Shortcut Key: field. Press the key that you want to use for the shortcut and then click apply.

Thats all there is to it.
Mar 14 '09 #2
vdraceil
236 100+
Yeah..that works.I didnt know it.Thanks.
One more thing - Is there any registry keys/values associated with this hot key setting? I would like to know it because i would like to set an hot key automatically to my own exe/application via coding
Mar 17 '09 #3

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