On all my Windows PCs I do a 'Shortcut key' for calculator to open with Ctrl+Shift+C:
I can't figure out how to do it on Windows 10. There are no right-click properties.
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, right-click Calculator, Create shorcut, Yescalc.exe
, Create Shortcut, Yes. Then step 2 aboveIf I placed the shortcut in %WinDir%\System or Documents it seemingly wouldn't work!? It was flakey even moving back to Desktop, but after I set the shortcut to something else, hit Apply, then back to Ctrl+Shift+C it'd work :P
To set up a Win+1 keyboard shortcut:
Using AutoHotkey script allows to use "Win" key for shortcut, e.g for Win+C:
#c::Run "calc.exe"
I didn't want to do any programming or pollute my desktop. What I did was find where my personal app links were stored when I installed them. I'll use Firefox as an example.
C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs
.calc.exe
and copied it to that same directory.Maybe a couple extra steps, but it (Ctrl - Alt - K) works!
With Windows 10 you can just simply pull the calculator icon from the Windows menu to your desktop, right click it and then select properties. The window that opens should allow you to add a hotkey.
win
+R
then typecalc
appkey
#18 as explained here: superuser.com/a/194102/129262