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I was trying to map a new keyboard shortcut in Visual Studio 2010 and realise it would not register Ctrl-M. Other letters were fine. I opened up Visual Studio 2008 and found it would not recognise the Ctrl-M input either in the shortcut dialog.

While Ctrl-M does not yield any visible system behaviour, my suspicion is still perhaps some program has mapped a OS-wide hotkey shortcut. To my knowledge UltraMon is the only one i know working on this computer that can register hotkeys, but none are assigned there.

I'd like to find out if there is any utility that can query out what are the globally-registered hotkeys by programs in Windows? thanks

UPDATE

Well, this laptop has an Intel integrated video control applet that sports hot key mapping as well, even though Ctrl-M is not assigned. I disabled it to be sure, and it's still not captured in Visual Studio.

UPDATE

I found the offending program - the Bing bar which came with WLE 2011. Woah. But nonetheless having a utility that can eye these out would be usefully quicker.

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Caution: If you use Win 8 or later, do not use this utility as it will create some trouble - see comments.

Hotkey Commander displays a list of programs with registered hotkeys in addition to other functionality.

It's shareware, so if you only need to see what program has registered which key, you can use free utility Hotkey Explorer, download link is on the same page.

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    I won't downvote in case it does work for someone else, but, be warned... Windows 8 x64, just tried this - it disabled my second screen, started a bunch of programs and generally messed me up for a few minutes. This app(s) just go through every hotkey and it was messing around far too much so I terminated before it completed. Mar 7, 2015 at 23:38
  • It wrote some Windows hotkeys, but I suppose there are more. And yes, on Windows 10 x64 it opened Windows lense, so I had to lock computer (Win + L) and close the lense.
    – CoolMind
    Jul 24, 2018 at 8:12
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ActiveHotkeys detects what global keyboard shortcuts (hotkeys) are currently registered on a computer. Unfortunately, it does not show which application is using which mapped keyboard shortcut.

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  • ............ :(
    – icelava
    Jan 28, 2011 at 15:20
  • "This application does not work correctly on 64-bit versions of Windows. Use it on 32-bit versions only." -- From its current (homepage](tranglos.com/activehotkeys) Jul 2, 2015 at 16:57

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