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ilyag:
I once went crazy with assigning hotkeys to do various things with my computer. As a result, I lost track which program owns which hotkey. Some of these hotkeys seem to do nothing at all. For instance, when I press CTRL-SPACE, nothing happens, even if I do this in a program which should do something after a CTRL-SPACE.

So, is it possible to write a program that tells you which program registered a combination of keys as a hotkey? As a bonus, it could also have the feature to force the hotkey to become unassigned. It would be nice if it worked with hotkeys involving the WINDOWS key, too.

Or does something like this already exist? I couldn't find it...

Thanks,
   Ilya.

TucknDar:
Oh, that would be sweet! If it's possible it would be great to be able to see every assigned hotkey and thus see any conflicts.

OGroeger:
Maybe Keyboard Shortcuts or Clavier are able to do this? I didn't test them, it's just an idea.

lanux128:
this PC Mag utility can detect hot-keys assigned to short-cuts but only for those on the Desktop & Start menu.

• Hotkey Detective 2

ilyag:
@OGroeger
I don't know, but looking at the websites of these two programs, they don't seem to do it.

@lanux
No, that's not exactly it. What I want is a program that tells me, for instance (I'm not sure that's even right):

  Break key is owned by C:\...\farr.exe
  Shift+PrtScrn key is owned by ...\ScreenshotCaptor.exe
  WINDOWS+R is owned by ...\explorer.exe

... and so on. (This assumes that FARR & Screenshot Captor are running) Ideally, it'd work like the "Find Handle" feature of Process Explorer (that finds out which program opened some particular file or uses some particular DLL).

  Of course, I'm not sure whether it's even possible. Programs like Winamp tell me when they can't assign a new hotkey because it's already taken, but they don't tell me which program took the hotkey.

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