Shortcut Maker

In order to make work a little faster, most applications out there have an implemented feature that lets you use hotkeys either for major features or everything they have to offer. There are those that give you the possibility to modify existing ones and for those that don't you can use specialized applications like Shortcut Maker.

Your computer won't feel a thing from running this lightweight utility. Required disk space roughly sums up 1 Mb and system resources are not a thing to worry about.

It's core function is to allow you to design custom key combinations for applications that already have hotkey support, but are difficult to use. One of the first steps is to select the target software for which following changes to be applied. You can only choose from those that are active.

The overall process is easy to use. After you are done selecting the target application, you are required to input keys you wish to replace an already existing combination of buttons. This comes in handy when available hotkeys are hard to remember or use, and there is no implemented function that allows you to change them.

However, the application is limited to replacing existing ones. You cannot set a custom hotkey for a feature that does not have a predefined shortcut.

You are able to save different configurations for later use, and even if the target application is closed, predefined keys remain active until it is launched again.

Taking everything into consideration, we can say that Shortcut Maker plans to achieve greatness, but does not really know how. What it really does is to create shortcuts to shortcuts, with, sadly no possibilities to carefully choose application specific functions for which hotkeys to be created, drastically limiting options.