Exploring: Make your own Keyboard Shortcut (windows vista trick)

Make your own Keyboard Shortcut for your Favorite

As discussed in my previous post, Vista assigns specific Keyboard Shortcuts for certain operations. However, Vista allows you to create one by yourself!!

What you need to do is to follow these simple steps:

1. Select a Shortcut of your favorite program. Here, I use an example of using Notepad shortcut on my desktop
2. Right click on your selected icon
3. Click Properties
4. Under 'Shortcut' tab, look for the 'Shortcut key' box.
   
5. On your keyboard press the shortcut you want it to be. However, not all buttons can be used. Here are the options:
1. F1-F12 or Numpad Key
2. SHIFT + (F1-F12 or Numpad Key)
3. CTRL + (F1-F12 or Numpad Key)
4. (CTRL + ALT or CTRL + SHIFT or ALT + SHIFT) + Almost any key
6. Click OK once you are done
   

Tips: It is always good to jot down the shortcuts if you are starting to make some, just in case you forget them. Yet, using it often enough will make you memorize them even faster.

This is really helpful as it would save you a lot of trouble by searching and looking for the shortcut of your favorite programs. Try it!!

This is my short video, demonstrating what you have just read. Enjoy.

Hope this helps.