How to Launch AppControl from a keyboard shortcut (Tutorial)

Hello everyone!
I’m hoping you are enjoying this neat Task Manager replacement, I know I do!

While the developers are working hard to implement keyboard shortcuts, i have found a neat way to launch AppControl with any keyboard shortcut by simply using a free tool called “hotkeyp”

The project is here: GitHub - plastovicka/HotkeyP
But the download can be found at HotkeyP download | SourceForge.net

Simply download that program, install it, open it.

Now go into Hotkey → Insert New

Now we need to instruct the program where the app is installed, this is easy, since AppControl has the main interface stored in the UI folder, we can call it directly from the executable, which is stored in: c:\Program Files\AppControl\ui\AppControl.exe

Even if the App is already active, executing that exe will bring it forth, does making our shortcut work.

Now let’s complete the information like this:

It is not necessary for you to use my hotkey combination, use anything you like. In this particular case, the program will open when I press: Shift+Alt+C

Any combination is available provided is not already mapped by windows.

That’s it!
Now you can invoke AppControl by just pressing your key combination.

Enjoy!

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This is so useful! Thanks for taking the time to post this, and for chatting with us on Discord too (I think it was you?).

Meanwhile I think on our next release we’ll have a keyboard combination launch built in for you.

Yes it was me.
You did a wonderful job with this App, certainly the best out there as Task Manager replacement.
I’m so glad that you are working on the keyboard combination feature :slight_smile:

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You can also do it using the (free) PowerToys Keyboard Manager utility.

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I didn’t realize PowerToys had that. Nice!

Our next update we are working on now will let AppControl launch with a keyboard command with no third party utilities required. Be on the lookout!

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