I have a shortcut on the desktop. If you double click on it, it runs the target program just fine.
Under 'properties' I have tried assigning various shortcut keys like Ctrl+Alt+N and none of them work.
I have also deleted and recreated the desktop shortcut with no luck.
This was working a couple of months ago.
Does the shortcut key actually show up in the shortcut itself or does the shortcut key not get saved? Try setting the shortcut key, and clicking okay/apply and opening the properties again to see if the key is saving.
It should look like this:
The shortcut key does get saved. This is how it looks after I entered the key then pressed OK.
Then reopened the properties dialog.
Still the shortcut key does not work
I'm also having the same issue just starting about 3 days ago. Shortcut keys not working to run programs, checked to make sure they were saving.
So for some unknown reason the problem has fixed itself.
I have no idea why.
It's possible that Microsoft released an update to Windows fixing the bug, or maybe your machine just needed a restart and a kick in the teeth! Either way, glad it is working now.
Shortcuts are still not working for me except for when I already have the desired program running (my shortcut for Chrome doesn't work when Chrome is not already running, for example).
I did find my problem. The shortcut keys do not work when I run an old program.
When I go to run that program I get a pop message saying
"Do you want to allow the following program from an unknown publisher to make changes to this computer?"
I say yes and the program runs fine but the shortcut keys stop working.
I don't know a way around the issue, except to shut down that program.
I have this problem. Win 10 laptop. Winamp and tried SRware iron & file explorer. None of them starts up. Why?
Try deleting the shortcut and recreating it. If that doesn't fix the issue, try changing the shortcut from like Ctrl-Alt-N to Ctrl-Shift-N and seeing if that works.
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