ctrl+alt+5 ALWAYS opens Notepad++ in Windows for me
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What the heck? Does anyone have some insight into what’s going on?
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@ddalthorp ,
Nope, no idea. I can’t reproduce that. If you’re saying from a closed NPP and you are in Windows and click that combo…best guess is that you have some kind of hotkeys shortcut setup going. -
@ddalthorp As @Lycan-Thrope notes, you have something outside of Notead++ that is starting Notead++.
Windows has a built-in hot-key thing that works for shortcuts that are on the desktop and possibly elsewhere. Right click on a shortcut icon on the desktop and select Properties. It should default to showing the Shortcut tab of the Properties dialog box. If not, switch to the Shortcut tab. About mid-way down is a field for
Shortcut key. Select that field and doCtrl+Alt+7or whatever you desire. Click[Ok]or[Apply]and nowCtrl+Alt+7will start the shortcut.So, I would first first check to see if there is a shortcut for Notepad++ on your desktop and see if that shortcut’s
Shortcut keyfield hasCtrl+Alt+5. If so, now you know whyCtrl+Alt+5starts Notepad++ and can delete or change the shortcut key. -
@mkupper said in ctrl+alt+5 ALWAYS opens Notepad++ in Windows for me:
on the desktop and possibly elsewhere
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see if there is a shortcut for Notepad++ on your desktopa second location that Windows checks is a shortcut pinned to your task bar
Also, if @ddalthorp has AutoHotKey or similar “hotkey utility”, there might be a “launch Notepad++” action for the keycombo defined in that utility, as well.
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