Hi Dennis,

This link allows you to set a system-wide hotkey. It's a wrapper around APIs.

http://www.gotdotnet.com/userarea/keywordsrch.aspx?keyword=hotkey


>Hi Cathi
>
>Thanks for your answer, however it's not quite what i'm looking for, I want ctrl+F1 to activate my own program, even when some other program has fucus,.. You know like it's posible to open Explorer using Win+e.
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>However I need my program to perform some opperations and then start a browser, therefore I belive my program must be open when ctrl+F1 is pressed (to save time), so I have made my program only visible by a Notificon.
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>This is what I want to happen.
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>1) At windows startup my program opens and is visible in the notification area.
>2) The user opens different applications, one is a Word document.
>3) Then the user presses ctrl+F1, to activate my program while the word document got focus.
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>Ok so here is my problems,..
>1) How do I activate my program when it dosn't have focus?
>2) How can I find out what other application has focus when ctr+F1 is pressed?
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>I hope u can help, thanks again
>
>Dennis Krag