HotkeyEx is a utility that allows you to start programs, open files or execute commands with a simple key combination. You can register hot keys for many common operations. HotkeyEx classifies hot keys into 6 categories, which helps managing them. These are: Run program or file, Run DLL, Run control panel applet, Shutdown Windows, Hotkey batch, Load hotkey file. You can have more than hot key sets saved in different files, so you can load different configuration when you need to.