Windows 10 Keyboard Shortcut to Calculator?

Question

On all my Windows PCs I do a 'Shortcut key' for calculator to open with Ctrl+Shift+C:

I can't figure out how to do it on Windows 10. There are no right-click properties.

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Answer 1

1. Create a shortcut of Calculator
2. Set the target: C:\Windows\System32\calc.exe
3. Right click on the shortcut and select “Properties”
4. On the “Shortcut” tab, enter the keyboard shortcut

Answer 2

Option 1

• File Explorer, type this (shell shortcut) in location bar shell:AppsFolder, right-click Calculator, Create shorcut, Yes
• Right-click new Calculator shortcut on Desktop, Properties, there is our Shortcut key field/entry!

Option 2

• Go to %WinDir%\System32, right-click calc.exe, Create Shortcut, Yes. Then step 2 above

If I placed the shortcut in %WinDir%\System or Documents it seemingly wouldn't work!? It was flakey even moving back to Desktop, but after I set the shortcut to something else, hit Apply, then back to Ctrl+Shift+C it'd work :P

Answer 3

To set up a Win+1 keyboard shortcut:

1. Pin the calculator to the taskbar (Press Windows key, start typing "calculator", once the app icon shows up, right-click to "Pin to Taskbar")
2. Drag it to the left-most spot on the taskbar (looks nice by the other white icons)
3. Windows key + 1 opens item #1 on your taskbar, which is now the calculator.
4. Bonus: Win + Shift + 1 opens a new instance of the calculator if you want multiple ones open.

Answer 4

Using AutoHotkey script allows to use "Win" key for shortcut, e.g for Win+C:

#c::Run "calc.exe"

Answer 5

I didn't want to do any programming or pollute my desktop. What I did was find where my personal app links were stored when I installed them. I'll use Firefox as an example.

1. I clicked on the Win icon (lower left), found the Firefox icon in all the apps listed and right clicked on it.
2. In the pop-up menu that appeared I hovered over on "More" and then left-clicked on "Open file location." That directory for me was: C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs.
3. I created a Desktop icon for calc.exe and copied it to that same directory.
4. I added the shortcut key to that Start Menu program.
5. I deleted the Desktop shortcut.

Maybe a couple extra steps, but it (Ctrl - Alt - K) works!

Answer 6

With Windows 10 you can just simply pull the calculator icon from the Windows menu to your desktop, right click it and then select properties. The window that opens should allow you to add a hotkey.

Answer 7

For me, the important point was the note below option 2 in gregg's answer.

If you create the shortcut to calc.exe in the System32 folder... the hotkey will not work.

If you then drag the shortcut from System32 to elsewhere (the desktop), it still will not work. You must change the hotkey - and it will start working.

Do not create the shortcut in any Windows system folder, and the hotkey combo will work immediately.