How can I disable the Ctrl+Alt+T hotkey owned by explorer.exe?

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I am annoyed by the global hotkey Ctrl+Alt+T, which focuses on the taskbar. According to hkexplr.exe the hotkey belongs to explorer.exe.

I tried the solution described in "Disable taskbar hotkey?" (with a T instead of F), but that didn't work.

How can I disable this global hotkey so applications can use it?

user2024923

Posted 2014-05-27T17:34:43.963

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2I normally use something like autohotkey to do this. – Ramhound – 2014-05-27T17:52:45.337

How would that help me to disable a hotkey another application sets? – user2024923 – 2014-05-28T19:20:55.817

I was under the impression it was a windows hotkey, hence my suggestion, but it wouldn't help override a non-windows hotkey combination. – Ramhound – 2014-05-28T19:30:36.713

Answers

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Ctrl+Alt+T is not a standard Windows hotkey.

You have some extension/utility program that's creating that shortcut.

Use MSConfig to disable all 3rd party start-ups and services and see if the hotkey still exists. If not, then re-enable the 3rd-party start-ups and services one at a time until you find the culprit that's creating it.

Once you know, decide what to do from there (ie: disable the 3rd party process that's causing it, or use it's UI to configure a different key, if possible).

Ƭᴇcʜιᴇ007

Posted 2014-05-27T17:34:43.963

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