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What other tool is using my hotkey? [duplicate]

I use Greenshot for screenshots, and it's been nagging about some other software tool using the same hotkey. I started receiving this warning message about two days ago. It shows up each time I reboot ...
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Delete Global Hotkey [duplicate]

Is there any way I can delete a global hotkey? I don't want to override it, I want it just deleted, since it blocks the key combination's use in other applications. I don't have knowledge of what the ...
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How to find which program captures global keyboard shortcut? [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: How can I determine which process owns a hotkey in Windows? Some of my global shortcuts stopped working, and I cannot figure out why. I suspect that there is some program that ...
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Print Screen key stopped working [duplicate]

I use Windows 7 SP1 x64 Ultimate and the Print Screen key stopped working: no image is put in the keyboard when I hit Print Key. Nothing happen when I hit Alt + Print Key either. The issue affects ...
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Windows 7 (64-bit) remove global hotkey created by unknown application [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: Finding which process owns a hotkey in Windows As the titles says an unknown application that I've installed have registered a global hot-key for Alt+2 , or as this is a ...
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Hot key detection on Windows 7 [duplicate]

Is there any method to detect hotkey binding on Windows 7? AltGr+N should display a } sign on my localized keyboard, but it doesn't display anything or do anything. This behaviour is application ...
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Finding out with process binds a hotkey [duplicate]

Somehow I have set a hotkey that start DoubleCommander whenever I press AltGr+s. Unfortunately I forgot which program is responsible for that behavior and therefore how to change it back. How do I ...
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Alt-X ignored on laptop keyboard in Windows 8.1, but normal with external keyboard [duplicate]

I just got a new computer with Windows 8.1. Whenever I need to type Alt-X or Alt-Shift-X in some applications, nothing happens. It seems that it is intercepted, but nothing visible is triggered. ...
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How can I know what keyboard combination shortcuts are currently set in my computer ? [duplicate]

I have many keyboard shortcuts in my pc (windows 7 , 64 bit) . I set those keyboard shortcuts to the "shortcut" of the program/script. For example , if I want to run chrome via ctrlshiftalt+d then ...
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Sniff/Capture where windows hotkeys are coming from [duplicate]

There are some shortcut keys on my windows computer that must be coming from some program. I know that I've installed a couple of "productivity" programs, but for the life of me I can't figure out ...
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How to identify which app is locking up this hotkey? Ctrl+Shift+N [duplicate]

I have over 100+ processes and have killed the obvious culprits by elimination, to see which app is locking up my key Combination. Now I can't use this shortcut in Chrome for incognito, I also can't ...
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What is preventing ctrl-alt-m from reaching IntelliJ on Windows 10?

I'm using IntelliJ in Windows and Ctrl-Alt-M is a shortcut that is very useful but right now it's doing nothing. The shortcuts just don't reach IntelliJ. My suspicion is that some other app registered ...
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40 votes
4 answers
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Find out what program is using a hotkey

I can't register a hotkey with a program because "other programs are using it" In this case "Print Screen" and "Ctrl + Print Screen" and every other combination of Shift, Alt, Ctrl, + print-screen. ...
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6 votes
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Remove unwanted app hotkey in windows

I'm using Windows 10 and an app I recently installed has set CTRL+M+O as a hotkey for launching itself, overriding a common shortcut for Visual Studio (collapse to definition). The problem is, I don't ...
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14 votes
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How do I get the list of defined shortcut keys in the Start menu?

How can I find out which keyboard shortcuts are defined inside the Start menu? And what shortcuts they are assigned to? Platform: Windows XP SP2 64 bit. Example: I open my main Visual Studio ...
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