Hotkeycontrol 8.4

Your computer comes with plenty of space on the toolbar to store shortcuts to almost every program you'll ever need. However, if you like to extensively install applications, whether or not for convenience's sake or simply because you have a ton of games, then you'll quickly find that the toolbar becomes cumbersome once you have 2-3 full bars. That's when you need a program to quickly boot up programs with a simple keystroke. Hotkeycontrol helps you do that easily.

Installing Hotkeycontrol is straightforward. The only notable thing that's worth mentioning is whether or not to install it for all users, or just the current one. On startup, the app will create an icon in the tray. It is there that you can set your hotkeys and what they do.

The configuration window is well designed, showing multiple tabs. There are tabs for launching/opening files, adjusting the volume, adjusting the brightness, windows and shortcuts, macros, and more. An important aspect of this program is that it can overwrite a few pre-existing global shortcuts like copy-paste and undo, but it doesn't work for others such as the task manager shortcut.

You can set the program to either run via executable files directly or shortcuts. It can also launch specific websites in certain browsers with a single keystroke. There are also other functions that let you create macros to let you repeat certain action. As you can tell from my initial listing, there's a ton more features, and I strongly encourage you to take a look yourselves.

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