Program Keyboard Shortcut

The Start menu is great tool for finding/running programs, but its multiple levels of folders can be time consuming to navigate. If you are using a certain program frequently, you are a good typist, you should set a keyboard shortcut for it so that you can start the program without taking your hands off the keyboard, because sometimes using a mouse actually slow your tasks down.

To set a program keyboard shortcut :

1. Click the Start menu, and then click All Programs. Choose the program that you want to start with a keyboard shortcut (i.e. Internet Explorer), right click and then click Properties.
   Note: This can also be implemented on another applications such as Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Outlook, etc. which you frequently used.
   
   
   
2. Put the cursor on the Shortcut key box. Now press the letter on your keyboard that
   you want the program to be started.
   
   
   
   
   
3. Choose the letter that easy to remember —for example, press I for Microsoft Internet
   Explorer.
   Note: You can use either uppercase or lowercase letters when creating your keyboard shortcuts—and when accessing them later. In the Shortcut key box, Microsoft Windows XP automatically adds Ctrl + Alt + before the key you pressed.
   
   
   
   
   
4. Click OK
   
   
   
5. Now test your shortcut. Hold down the CTRL and ALT keys, and then press the letter
   you choose.
   
   
   
   Note : if you don’t have access right on editing the standard shortcut, You will be
   prompted error message “Access is denied “
   
   
   
   
   In this case you need to create your new own shortcut based on the standard shortcut
   on your desktop or directly pointing to the program files & then you will be able to create
   your keyboard shortcut.