Why is the Ctrl+Shift+Z hotkey opening the ExtraPuTTY Examples folder?

Question

Whenever I press Control + Shift + Z (ctrl+shift+z) to redo in an application, Windows Explorer opens up with the ExtraPuTTY Examples folder:

C:\Program Files\ExtraPuTTY\Bin\Examples

I figured out why, so I'm posting the answer for others with this issue.

Answer 1

When you install ExtraPuTTY, it creates a shortcut in the start menu to the Examples folder, and in the shortcut properties it defines the hotkey Control+Shift+Z to run/launch it.

 

To solve this issue, you can go to:

%APPDATA%\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\ExtraPuTTY\Examples

(for example, it will look like this, with "charles" replaced with your windows username):

C:\Users\charles\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\ExtraPuTTY\Examples

Then right-click on the Examples shortcut in that folder
Click Properties
Click inside the Shortcut Key box.
Press Backspace (or Delete) to clear the shortcut.
Click OK.

 

To avoid this issue:

When you're installing ExtraPuTTY, you can deselect the option to install Examples.

 

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Tested with both the snapshot version of ExtraPuTTY (ExtraPuTTY-0.30-2016-04-04-installer), and the release candidate version (ExtraPuTTY-0.29-RC2-installer).

I'm submitting this as an official bug as well, but it looks like development has been stalled for a few years. Thus I'm posting the info here for more general visibility.