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You can create your own keyboardshortcut to open your most used programs, and you can do that without the help from a third party application.For example, I want to create a keyboard shortcut that can open Internet Explorer by just pressing Ctrl+Alt+E.
(1) Right click IE icon on the taskbar, right click again on Internet Explorer, and go to Properties.
(2) In the Shortcut tab, click the Shortcut key box and assign the shortcut key you like.

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Tajinder Singh Kalsi is the co-founder and Chief Technical Evangelist at Virscent Technologies Pvt. Ltd. He is well known and respected in the professional community. He commenced his career in the year 2006 with Wipro.
He is no stranger to technology. In fact, his family and friends would call him a Technology Fanatic. Having a work experience of more than 6 years, he understands, identifies, and forecasts future technological trends with proven accuracy and is very passionate about his work. He always looks for challenges and opportunities in the technological space, and strives to work on exciting products/services.
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