Add New Keyboard Shortcuts
It's rather strange that Windows does not ship with an easy way to configure or change keyboard shortcuts that the system makes available.
Enter HoeKey, a lightweight portable software that can be used to configure various advanced keyboard shortcuts. The application ships with a set of pre-configured hotkeys that you can use right away, and options to add more hotkeys.
Keyboard shortcuts can be edited and added to the computer system by editing an ini file that lists all the existing shortcuts. It basically comes down to the following. You select a keyboard combination containing at least one of the modifier key Windows, ALT, Shift or CTRL key, and one additional key and define an action for that keyboard shortcut afterwards.
One of the biggest strengths of the application is the wide variety of possible actions that can be defined. It ranges from running applications, entering text, manipulating windows, changing system settings like the volume of the system. Hoekey supports multimedia keyboard keys and can control media playback on the computer system as well.
The best option to get started is to go through the application's documentation and config examples. The docs are available online on the developer's website while config examples are included with the application itself.
As far as functions are concerned, the following are available:
- Create a new window using various commands including running a program.
- Manipulate existing windows including terminating processes, moving the window, changing its state or hiding one or multiple windows.
- Do various things such as changing the system volume, or ejecting a drive.
- Sending messages to clients or focusing applications.
Probably the most amazing factor of this keyboard shortcuts program is its low resource usage. Once everything has been configured the application runs quietly in the background. It uses 200 Kilobytes of computer memory while running and 600 Kilobytes of virtual memory. That's nothing compared to most other applications that allow the manipulation of keyboard shortcuts on the Windows operating system.
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take a look at hot chime. You set up a hot key to open the program and then enter any file, folder, website etc. and create any shortcut you want (with as few or many letters as you wish) with no need to include the windows, alt or ctrl keys. Hit the hot key to invoke hot chime and then type your shortcut.
I always wanted to know where is the location of these shortcuts. Great tip.
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memokeys isnt free right? And what kind of memory does it consume?
very interesting….
can someone tell me what exactly is the file that windows uses for its shortcuts.
whats the .ini filled called?
much thanks!!
Does Windows not have a way to configure shortcuts from within the OS? Is that a joke? KDE has had a way to configure shortcuts over ten years ago, and that was when Linux was still considered difficult to use!
It’s really cool for launching different applications using shortcuts. If you want to use shortcuts for pasting a saved before, MemoKeys is another awesome shortcut utility.
HoeKey is amazing, i’m surprised it has not been covered here before.
another huge advantage it has over other hotkey apps is that it can send windows API messages, so you can add global hotkey support to apps like iTunes as long as you can find the right parameters.
it is a bit tricky to set up since there is no GUI for setting hotkeys, but it’s worth the effort.
but having said all that, i set aside HoeKey once i found Hotkey Master. it is even more powerful than HoeKey, but is much easier to use, and works amazingly well for mapping my multimedia keyboard. it can even map special keys with modifiers like ALT or CTRL.
it’s ancient, but it works fine even on Windows 7. unfortunately, it is neither portable nor free (but just costs €4.23)