Reginald0 Posted November 22, 2004 Report Share Posted November 22, 2004 Hi, folks! I'm using a program to set global hotkeys in Windows XP, and it works great from F1 to F11, but my problem is: When I try to register F12 as a hotkey, the following error message appears: "Error. Unable to register the specified Hotkey. The Hotkey is probably busy, already taken by another program. Please choose another Hotkey." How can I determine which other program has taken the F12 key? Which entry in the Windows registry do I have to check? Is it possible to change the according registry entry by hand so that the program will be able to take the F12 key? I really would like to use F12 as a hotkey. Thanks in advance.Reginald0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reginald0 Posted November 30, 2004 Author Report Share Posted November 30, 2004 Problem solved!The link http://webpages.charter.net/krumsick/ that point to KeyTweak utility solved my problem. I remapped the F12 key to some key that doesn't exist on my keyboard (mute sound, for example) and the Windows begins to use it's key code, thinking it is F12. Simple but very effective.PS: Sorry for delay to answer, I was traveling :-)Reginald0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nellie2 Posted November 30, 2004 Report Share Posted November 30, 2004 Thanks for letting us know... I did have a google on this one but couldn't come up with anything conclusive! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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