If you found yourself not easy to remember the default and provided keyboard shortcuts in any programs you have installed on your computer, you can create your own keyboard shortcuts! Sure it’s easy to create our own keyboard shortcuts (hotkeys), why you need to create one? To make you easier to remember, since keyboard shortcuts is the simpler way to open program than mouse or other pointing device. But surely it takes our memory to operate them at hand! Just like in Keyboard Shortcuts For All Windows 7 Editions In Full List that too many to remember.
Follow these steps to create your own keyboard shortcuts or hotkeys:
- Navigate to the folder that owns the program you wan to create its shortcuts, and then right-click the program’s executable file, and then click Create Shortcut
- Put the shortcut you just created to the program.
- Now you need to right-click on the shortcut, and then click Properties.
- Go to the Shortcut Properties dialog box, click the Shortcut tab.
- Click in the Shortcut key box, press the key on your keyboard that you want to use in combination with Ctrl+Alt (keyboard shortcuts automatically start with Ctrl+Alt), and then click OK. Administrator permission required If you are prompted for an administrator password or confirmation, type the password or provide confirmation.
You can now use this keyboard shortcut to open the program.
Notes
- The word None appears in the Shortcut key box until you press a key; then it’s replaced with Ctrl+Alt+the key that you pressed.
- The new shortcut might not work for programs that have their own keyboard shortcuts.
- You cannot use the Esc, Enter, Tab, Spacebar, PrtScn, Shift, or Backspace keys to create a keyboard shortcut.
- You can also create keyboard shortcuts to open files and folders.
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