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After some update, Alt F7 hotkey stopped working in Far Manager and Total Commander.

I tried stopping all processes like explorer, realtek utility, nvidia utility, one drive — didn’t help.

When booting in Safe Mode however, Alt F7 works just fine, so it’s not the hardware problem.

How do I find out which application or Windows component stole the hotkey?

Soonts
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Open NVidia GeForce Experience Settings -> General

Disable Share totally (newer: In-Game Overlay). This will free the binding of Alt F7 among lots of others.

If you do use Share feature you can use this alternative:

Press Alt + Z when you are on desktop for example: Settings -> Keyboard Shortcuts Change the binding of Alt + F7 to something else.

Gunnar Bernstein
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Could not add comments and upvote answer with Nvidia Geforce Experience as an issue. It helps me too, but I does not reinstall, I just disabled Alt+z hokey in settings - "share" functionality.

Sopholos
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Yes, NVidia GeForce Experience was the reason! However, on my PC it was not called "Share", but "IN_GAME OVERLAY". As soon as I disabled the IN_GAME OVERLAY, all shortcuts in Far started working.

Terry
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I also had the same issue, after not having the shortcut functioning now for well over 2 years, I am still automatically using it. So today I wanted to figure out.

I found that both on my PC and Laptop the culprit stealing my shortcut was the Geforce Experience. Just deleted the shortcut from there and now it's working for me.

I thought I share this here because I think it is a much used software that could lead to the same problem by others.

Varga Szilard
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I had same issue, and strangely enough, it was resolved after updating Nvidia Geforce Experience.

Ptichka
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In current version of GeForce Experience (3.8.0.89) the feature that needs to be switched off or adjusted, is called In-Game Overlay. By default, it uses Alt+F7 to pause/resume broadcasting.

Andrey Drogolyub
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Media Player Classic Homecinema v 1.7.13 caused me this.

Also Chrome did not start (closed immediately), and some other weird app closing.

My best guess is using Global Hotkeys function of MPC-HC. Hard to test, because not happening immediately opening MPC-HC, but incorrect working stops when I close it.

gerleim
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The accepted answer worked for me too (https://superuser.com/a/1139293/1051438), but: If Geforce Experience doesn't have full internet access it may not show the necessary options to disable the shortcuts. I was behind a VPN, with internet access going through a proxy, so I could download and install Geforce Experience, but not disabling the options, only with direct internet access I could change the options.

Jan
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