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Hot Key Plus is a small freeware utility that allows you to launch applications using the 'Windows' keys (the ones with the Windows icon on them) on your keyboard.
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A Brief History of Windows Key
I believe that the 'Windows' key is the most useful key on the keyboard. I've not always thought this way, indeed, when the Windows 95 keyboard was first launched I thought the extra keys Microsoft introduced were little more than a nuisance. However, one day when I was playing around I discovered that pressing the 'Windows' key in combination with other keys can be used to launch applications. Most frequent Windows users are aware of these shortcuts but they aren't well published (see the this MS Knowledge Base article
under the heading Microsoft Natural Keyboard Keys for the complete set). The combination Win+E to launch Windows Explorer is just so useful that I simple can't use a keyboard without a 'Windows' key.It's always frustrated me that Microsoft never built in the ability to define your own shortcut keys. I wanted to have all my favourite applications at my fingertips. To satisfy this desire I wrote Hot Key Plus.
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And There's More
Hot Key Plus is bundled with a couple of extra programs, sstart.exe and wsize.exe.
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Running sstart.exe starts the current screensaver. By default Hot Key Plus is configured to run this program when Ctrl+Win+Space is pressed. If you set you screensaver to be password protected, then to lock your workstation you simply press Ctrl+Win+Space. If you need more sophisticated ways to start a screen saver you might like to check at another program I've written called Saver Starter.
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wsize.exe is a program that resizes the active window to dimensions given to the program as parameters. By default Hot Key Plus is configured to use: Ctrl+Win+6 to resize a window to 640×480; Ctrl+Win+8 to resize a window to 800×600; and Ctrl+Win+1 to resize a window to 1024×768. If you need different sizes these can be configured in the Configuration Dialog
. Alternatively, if you need more sophisticated sizing control, take a look at Sizer.
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