Win+R Shortcut to TC

[MrPetersen]

So I haven't been able to find the right command to Run TC with Win+R just yet. I've tried copying the program path and anything else I've been able to find in the program's properties.

Is there either a command for this or a way to set one up? I'm relatively new to using Win+R.

(Windows 7/Vista)

Thank you,
MrP

[karlchen]

Hello, MrPetersen.

By default the keyboard shortcut <Win>R will launch the Windows Run dialogue. I am not sure whether there is an easy way of re-defining it.
In order to make a keyboard shortcut launch Total Commander, you locate the programme icon in the Windows start menu. You right click it. You select "Properties" at the end of the right click menu.
You click on the item "Shortcut key". Next you press the desired keyboard shortcut.
Click [Apply].
(It looks to me as if Windows here insists on prefixing <Ctrl><Alt> so that I can only choose a letter or number.)

In case I misunderstand your question and in case what you really want to know is this: I press <Win>R to open the Run: dialogue. What do I have to enter to launch Total Commander?
Check the commandline which the Total Commander start menu icon executes. Copy this line and paste it into the Run: dialogue. (Will it not be easier to use the start menu icon directly?)

Kind regards,
Karl

[MrPetersen]

Okay this works well enough for me. I would like to one day learn how to create <Win>R commands, but this will do the job.

Thanks again.

[MrPetersen]

Also,

This is my first time changing a shortcut key in this fashion...
Why does it insist on the <Ctrl><Alt> prefix?
I imagine I'll eventually run out of shortcuts creating them like that and will want to create some a different way.

Thanks.

[MVV]

Ctrl+Alt+Key, Ctrl+Shift+Key, Ctrl+Alt+Shift+Key are suported in LNK properties. However I think it would be more useful to install some hotkey manager and map commands to any desired hotkeys.

[MrPetersen]

Thanks for the replies guys.. and sorry about taking so long to get back to you.

I actually found a way to quickly and conveniently do this.

Create shortcut of whatever you want your Win+R command to be on your desktop and then copy+paste into your Windows Directory (%windir%). Cut shortcut from your desktop and all should be good.

Any drawbacks from doing it this way?

Thanks.

[solid]

2MrPetersenI don't know what your real need is so you are using win+r for starting programs, but may I introduce you to Launchy?

[lzvk25]

With autohotkey you can override the windows settings :

Download it here : http://ahkscript.org

And you only need to edit the file C:\Users\..(your user)...\Documents\AutoHotkey.ahk, adding the following command :

#r::Run C:\...(your TC path)...\TOTALCMD.EXE