Custom keyboard shortcut key not working properly

alacarre said:

I'm not sure if you solved this problem, but I know that so-called "fullscreen" applications will mess up the keyboard shortcuts. […]

So, in fact, Windows+D brings the shortcut keys back (presumably because it allows another hack to work).

- Alan

Thank you so much!
This is exactly the problem I have been failing to fix for ages and I couldn't figure out why Fullscreen flash player for example would void the functionality of my shortcuts.
Finally a way to fix it.
A shame Microsoft uses bad programming habits that even non-professional programmers would certainly frown upon.

I'm having the same issue, but none of these fixes are working for me. The shortcuts were in my start menu with show recent programs allowed to begin with, but then even after creating a new folder in the start menu it wouldn't work. You'd think this would be simpler to do, but I haven't even been able to do this reliably since Windows XP...

David Wilhite said:

I had the same problem. Here's what worked for me:

The issue seems to be that Windows won't look just anywhere for shortcut files when it is restoring hotkey (shortcut key) assignments after login. It DOES seem to look in the Start Menu for these. So I created a folder called C:\Users\username\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\_hotkeys

Hotkey assignments within shortcuts in there are remembered/restored at next login.

Hope that works for you!

This worked 100% Thanks!

David Wilhite said:

I had the same problem. Here's what worked for me:

The issue seems to be that Windows won't look just anywhere for shortcut files when it is restoring hotkey (shortcut key) assignments after login. It DOES seem to look in the Start Menu for these. So I created a folder called C:\Users\username\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\_hotkeys

Hotkey assignments within shortcuts in there are remembered/restored at next login.

Hope that works for you!

Dude, you are awesome. If you hear that a lot, it's because you are