HotkeyP
A tiny hotkey manager that binds keyboard, mouse or joystick shortcuts to programs and system commands.
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About HotkeyP
HotkeyP does one job: it maps a shortcut to an action. The action can be an executable, a document, a folder or a web page, or one of a long list of built-in system commands including shutdown, hibernate, changing the screen resolution, volume control, process priority, ejecting a CD, changing the wallpaper, always on top, hiding the active window, killing a process or pasting text.
It supports multimedia keyboards, five mouse buttons and the mouse wheel, WinLIRC remotes and joysticks, and shortcuts can be organised into categories. It is portable, a few hundred kilobytes, and it has been maintained by the same author since 2005.
Strengths
- Binds shortcuts to programs, documents, folders, web pages and dozens of built-in system commands
- Multimedia keyboards, five mouse buttons, the mouse wheel, WinLIRC remotes and joysticks are all supported
- Shortcuts can be organised into categories, and the whole thing is portable
- Small and light: the download is under half a megabyte
Limitations
- Windows only, and the interface has not changed in years
- It binds actions; it is not a scripting language like AutoHotkey
- The official download lives on SourceForge, whose download pages are heavy with advertising
Details
- Pricing
- FreeFree and open source under GPLv3, distributed through the author’s SourceForge project.
- License
- GPL-3.0
- Developer
- Petr Laštovička
- Platforms
- Windows
- How it runs
- Downloadable app
- Account
- Not required
- Works offline
- Yes
- Best suited for
- Global shortcuts for launching things and controlling Windows
- Categories
- Automation
- Last verified
- Added
- Provenance
- Selected from the TechWalrus downloads catalog (Automation); facts checked against the developer's own pages, 5 sources on file.
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AutoHotkey
A Windows scripting language for hotkeys, text expansion, key remapping and automating anything on screen.
AutoHotkey also binds global shortcuts on Windows but is a full scripting language, adding key remapping, text replacement and GUIs at the cost of writing scripts.
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