Hot
Key Plus is a nifty little program that sits down in the
system tray. It lets you easily make keyboard shortcuts for
just about anything you can imagine. You can...
- Start any program on your computer. You could probably
also open several programs at once via a batch file.
- Use it to go to a particular web page. I have a keyboard
shortcut to Google, for example.
- Shut down or reboot the computer.
- Open Windows Explorer at a particular folder.
- Pretty much anything else you can imagine.
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| It uses virtually no CPU time and little RAM.
It is free and there is no install...no bunch of registry entries.
It hasdefinitely become a must have program for me. |
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I have tried to standardize the useage of
the modifier keys - makes them easier to remember - but that
isn't always possible because of existing system keyboard shortcuts.
- Alt + for apps (or shortcuts to them)
- Win + for opening Explorer at a particular folder
- Shift + Ctrl + for web pages
I reserve Ctrl + for a Winamp plug-in to control Winamp.
Here is where you make a new hot key...
To make a hot key, all you need do is click on the Hot Key window,
then press whatever key you want on the keyboard. Next, select
one or more of the modifiers, then click in the Command Line
window and type in the path; alternatively, browse to the program
exe, url, shortcut, whatever and select it. OK your way out
and you are finished. You can even make keyboard shortcuts to
reboot or shut down your computer. See
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| About the only thing you need to watch out for is to not duplicate
key board shortcuts
used by Windows. For example, you could not use Winkey +
F for a shortcut because that is used by Windows for "Find".
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Put a shortcut to it in
C:\Windows\Start\Programs\StartUp
so it will run whenever you boot the computer.
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