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As of today, Ctrl + Alt + k began to randomly open the Kindle application on my Windows computer. This hotkey used to open my keepass application. Is there any way to disable this hotkey? This specific hotkey isn't even listed on Amazon's own keyboard shortcuts page
Kindle Version: 1.23.1 (50133)
Windows 10 Home version 1709
WHY
Posted 2018-05-07T19:51:52.913
Reputation: 315
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The hotkey is defined on the application shortcut. You can roughly follow the instructions in https://www.laptopmag.com/articles/create-keyboard-shortcuts-windows-10:
user2340724
Posted 2018-05-07T19:51:52.913
Reputation: 451
As Stephen notes below, you may need to search for any other shortcuts to the application and check them for hotkey combinations as well. – music2myear – 2018-10-18T16:31:03.737
For some reason, apps where I'd mapped ctrl+alt+K using AutoHotKey were unaffected by installing the Kindle app, but the same shortcut in WebStorm suddenly stopped working. It was driving me nuts until I found this page. – jdunning – 2019-07-04T20:30:29.223
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You also need to check to see if there is a Kindle shortcut on your desktop. If so, you will also need to remove the shortcut key from that shortcut using the same instructions here.
I found that even after removing the shortcut from the start menu shortcut, ctrl+alt+k still opened the kindle app.
Stephen Rothery
Posted 2018-05-07T19:51:52.913
Reputation: 61
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The solution is not that simple - the keyboard shortcut Ctrl+Alt+K can't be used because of Kindle. I searched all three start menus and the desktop. I looked for a setting in the app itself.
Finally, I found it by searching the entire system (using a tool called Everything).
Here's the file it was in (not a shortcut):
C:\Users\Pat\AppData\Local\Amazon\Kindle\application\Kindle.exe
PDQpat
Posted 2018-05-07T19:51:52.913
Reputation: 9
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Press Ctrl+Alt+K to open Kindle app. Right-click on Kindle app appeared in taskbar, then right-click once more on Kindle app appeared in the context list. In that context menu left-click on Properties. Kindle app properties window should appear. Remove Ctrl+Alt+K shortcut from Shortcut key field by focusing on it and pressing Backspace. Save changes by pressing OK button.
senyor
Posted 2018-05-07T19:51:52.913
Reputation: 1
@Ramhound Thank you for the suggestion. I'll give that a try. – WHY – 2018-05-08T00:13:53.930
@Ramhound user2340724 had the correct solution – WHY – 2018-05-10T19:25:20.937