How to Launch Any Windows 10 App with a Keyboard Shortcut

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Setting up a hotkey for any app

A standard account is enough for this tutorial, though if you want to set up shortcuts for launching apps in system-protected folders, an administrator account would be required.
The first thing you need to do is to find the executable file or the shortcut location of the app you want to launch with a keyboard shortcut.

In this tutorial, I’m going to use Notepad++ as an example, as it shows up in the Start menu because it’s one of the most recent programs I installed. To find the root location of the file, just right-click the shortcut in the Start menu > More > Open file location.

Basically, all shortcuts in the Windows 10 Start menu are stored at the following location:

Code:

C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs

If they’re placed in a different folder, that doesn’t change anything because the next steps are pretty much the same.

Just right-click any shortcut > Properties and open the Shortcut tab. In the lower part of the screen, there’s a Shortcut key field where you can define the hotkey you want to use. Simply click in the empty space and then press the keys for the hotkey (e.g. CTRL + Shift + 1).

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