Windows: Hotkey assistance

Question

Well, I'm wondering is there's any way to link a single key on my keyboard to a file. I wish to execute the file upon pressing the key. I tried using the built in shortcut hotkey system and it didn't work out for me. It really needs to be one single key.

Answer 1

Autohotkey may do the job - I used it to trigger an action upon "double-pressing" the "alt" key (ahk script below). I'm pretty sure you can trigger an action by pressing a key only once also, but might be difficult to find an otherwise unused key for that.

Alt::
KeyWait, Alt
KeyWait, Alt, D, T0.12
If ErrorLevel = 1
    Return
Else
    Run, c:\example.exe -aparameter

Answer 2

What is possible is enable sticky keys and thus eliminating the need of pressing multiple buttons at once.

Hope that helps.