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How can I determine which process owns a hotkey in Windows?

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Mar 15, 202685926 views
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Given a hotkey, how can I find which program owns it?

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This works for me in Win10 (and probably all other even vaguely-recent versions of Windows)... also copied here from https://stackoverflow.com/a/43645062/995048 since this page seems to come up first in search results: One possible way is to use the Visual Studio tool Spy++. Give this a try: Run the tool (for me, it's at , or use to monitor 32-bit processes) In the menu bar, select Spy -> Log messages... (or hit Ctrl + M) Check All Windows in System in the Additional Windows frame Switch to the…

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