Shortcut keys not working on Windows 7 Ultimate x64

Question

yesterday I installed Windows 7 Ultimate x64. The problem is that I have some programs on the quicklaunch and I want some of them to be opened by hitting a shorcut key.

Well, the procedure to set it is very straightforward. Right click on the program shorcut, focus on Shorcut key field and press your desire shortcut. Apply/Ok. Done.

Well, it's not working. I've tried several keys combination, I've tred moving the shortcut to the desktop, my user folder, C:\ root, wherever. It simply doesn't want t work... While on XP this worked me just fine.

I've searched on google and I've found some people having the same problem, but I didn't found any solution to it.

Any idea?

If not, could you recommend a very lightweight macros program to set hotkeys to open apps and those sort of things?

Thanks!

Solution

Was the keys working, any time after installing Windows 7? Check this forum and this forum. They mention corrupt user profile can also be a reason for this and some restriction for special keys also.

Make sure the actual shortcut is available in Desktop or startmenu hierarchy as this KB says.

As far as a mapper, you could try Hoekey or KeyTweak

Comments

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I've tried Ctrl+Alt, Ctrl+Shift, Ctrl+Alt+Shift, F1-F12... I forgot to say that the hotkeys HAS to be Ctrl+Alt+A/B/C/D or Ctrl+Alt+1/2/3/4 or Ctrl+Alt+F1/F2/F3/F4 becaue I have an IR remote controller which has 4 buttons that sends those keystrokes to the system.

[empz]

I pinned the shortcut to the start menu and it seems to be working now. Thanks!