Keyboard Shortcut

johngalt · May 19, 2008

Shawn,

I created a shortcut for the Snipping tool, and using either CTRL + ALT + Z or CTRL + SHIFT + Z is not working - I am currently having to use a third party app for creating shortcuts (HoeKey) because it does a *lot* more than just simple shortcuts, allowing you to map the Windows Key as well, and including extra functionality, including minimize to System Tray and other functions.

However, with Vista Ultimate 32bit setting a shortcut key for Snipping Tool always worked. Any idea why it might not be working in Vista Ultimate 64bit (SP1) ?

Brink · May 19, 2008

Hi Johngalt,

Not sure why it is not working for you. It is working fine on my 64 Bit Vista Ultimate SP1. You might try another letter to see if that is the problem.

Shawn

johngalt · May 19, 2008

Ahhh, I figured it out. I was using the shortcut in the Quick Launch menu, and not the item from the start menu - I just verified - I set ST's shortcut to CTRL + ALT + Z from the ST in Start menu, then went to Quick Launch and changed the shortcut on that ST to CTRL + ALT + X and then went back to the start menu - the shortcut remains at CTRL + ALT + Z. So, the Quick Launch items cannot be used for creating a system wide shortcut. Very weird.

Brink · May 19, 2008

Johngalt,

Nope. It will not work for Quick Launch. Quick Launch has it's own keyboard shortcuts for them. Windows Key + 0 to 9.

http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/72439-quick-launch.html

Shawn

johngalt · May 19, 2008

Yeah, I belated figured that out. BTW, I took a tutorial similar to your tuts about creating logoff, shutdown and reboot shortcuts and took it a step further. I renamed the shortcuts 1 - Reboot, 2 - Shutdown, and 3 - Logoff, and then placed them in Quicklaunch. Now, they are easily there for use either by clicking on them (renaming them with numbers puts them at the top of the list when sorting by name) or by the QuickLaunch shortcuts Win + 1, etc.

Again, though, sorry about the goof earlier in trying to use the QuickLaunch Snipping Tool icon.

Brink · May 19, 2008

LOL, no problem Johngalt. That's a good idea you have on naming the shortcuts like that to make it easier to remember the QL keyboard shortcut numbers for them.

Shawn

pyewacket97 · Sep 14, 2008

I'm a little confused here. I have the current Microsoft Vista Ultimate and I created a shortcut for the snipping tool, but it's not working.

Maybe I went through Quicklaunch? I'm not sure. I searched for the program in the start menu, right clicked it, added the keyboard shortcut I wanted to use, applied it, went through the whole permissions thing and now it doesn't work.

So I tried again and went to its file location, but when I right click on the properties, the tabs are different and there's no area in which to add custom keyboard shortcuts.

Is there something I'm doing wrong?

I use a MAC at work and this function is built in, so this whole snippet thing is really frustrating for me....

Brink · Sep 14, 2008

Hi PyeWacket, and welcome to Vista Forums.

It can only be added to a shortcut of the Snipping Tool exe file and not directly from the exe file. You may need to create a new shortcut from the exe file and try adding the keyboard shortcut to it instead.

Hope this helps,
Shawn

sqkrchik · May 12, 2009

I'm having a problem getting the snipping tool shortcut to work in explorer. (I've had two updates download since 5/2, and I think my problem might be related to that.) Per Microsoft One Note, I should be able to use the "window key + s" to bring up the tool in explorer and then it copies to one note. This worked up until 5/2 when I did the download. I tried adding the key command to a shortcut, but it still won't work in explorer. Any ideas?

Brink · May 12, 2009

Hello Sqkrchik,

Usually it would be Ctrl+Alt+ the key letter instead when using this tutorial. An alternative would be to place the Snipping Tool shortcut as one of the 1st ten shortcuts listed in Quick Launch. You could then use the Windows Key + the # of what order the shorcut is in. For example, if the Snipping Tool shortcut was the 1st icon in Quick Launch, you would use Windows Key + 1 to open it.

Hope this helps,
Shawn

sqkrchik · May 12, 2009

Thank you Shawn for your reply. I was able to set up the hotkey combination using the "+ctrl, +alt, +s" which works if I press the three keys and doesn't work for the window key +s. The snip goes to the snipping tool screen.

Previously (before the upgrades), I could press the window key +s and the snip would go to One Note from Explorer. I really liked that ability.

Was that something that was set up in Explorer or in One Note? Is it a different type of hot key?

I'm learning more than I ever thought I would....
Thanks,
Cynthia

Brink · May 12, 2009

You're welcome Cynthia.

It must of had something to do with One Note since I cannot open it with Windows Key + S either in Vista.

sqkrchik · May 12, 2009

I figured it out! The window key+s IS a function of one note. From One Note's other options in the tools dropdown menu, you can place a one note icon in the notification tray. Right-clicking on that icon enables options to create screen clipping using the window key + s command.

Somehow, when I lost the other notification icons, I must have also lost the one note icon.

Thank you for your help. I don't think I would have followed this through without inspiration from this site. I'm feeling rather techie :cool:

... I have this site bookmarked to stay updated on these Vista issues. (I uninstalled IE8 too after reading one of the threads.)

Thanks Again!!

Brink · May 12, 2009

You're welcome Cynthia. I'm happy to hear that you got it sorted out. Please feel free to post any issue you run across in the forum. I'm sure that one of us may be able to help with it.

ethical · Dec 20, 2011

Hello Brink

I would like to ask you how can i make shutdown shortcut work if i have already shortcut at Programs folder (with ShortCut Key: Ctrl+Alt+H) and if i press/hit those keys --> Ctrl+Alt+H
when i am working on/viewing my Desktop.

I tried it but nothing

If I have this shortcut that i describe at Desktop it works fine, when i press Ctrl+Alt+H keys.

I am waiting for your Response.

Thank You

Brink · Dec 20, 2011

Hello Ethical, and welcome to Vista Forums.

You'll have to use a keyboard shortcut that you didn't already assign to another shortcut, or remove the keyboard shortcut from the other one and assign a different one to it instead.

Hope this helps,
Shawn

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