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How to see which application is intercepting certain key combinations?

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Mar 15, 20262344 views
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Yesterday, I noticed that "Alt+R" wasn't working. Anywhere. Other key combinations with Alt were working normally. So I fired up Eclipse, went to keyboard shortcut settings and saw that I can't map "Alt+R" to anything. From these findings it was obvious that something, somewhere has globally regist…

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There is small, freeware application called ActiveHotkeys, but it just shows active key combinations. From ActiveHotkeys webpage: Windows does not provide information about what program registered a particular global hotkey. Therefore this informati…

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