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As of today, Ctrl + Alt + k began to randomly open the Kindle application on my Windows computer. This hotkey used to open my keepass application. Is there any way to disable this hotkey? This specific hotkey isn't even listed on Amazon's own keyboard shortcuts page

Kindle Version: 1.23.1 (50133)

Windows 10 Home version 1709

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The hotkey is defined on the application shortcut. You can roughly follow the instructions in https://www.laptopmag.com/articles/create-keyboard-shortcuts-windows-10:

  1. Open the start menu
  2. Search for the Kindle app
  3. Right click and select Open file location
  4. Right click on the shortcut icon and select Properties.
  5. Go to the "shortcut key" setting and press backspace to clear it out.
  6. Click OK to save.
user2340724
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You also need to check to see if there is a Kindle shortcut on your desktop. If so, you will also need to remove the shortcut key from that shortcut using the same instructions here.

I found that even after removing the shortcut from the start menu shortcut, ctrl+alt+k still opened the kindle app.

Stephen Rothery
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  1. Press Ctrl + Alt + K to open Kindle app. Right-click on Kindle app appeared in taskbar, then right-click once more on Kindle app appeared in the context list. In that context menu left-click on Properties.

    Properties

  2. The Kindle app properties window should appear. Remove Ctrl + Alt + K shortcut from Shortcut key field by focusing on it and pressing Backspace. Save changes by pressing OK button.

    Shortcut Key

KyleMit
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senyor
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The solution is not that simple - the keyboard shortcut Ctrl+Alt+K can't be used because of Kindle. I searched all three start menus and the desktop. I looked for a setting in the app itself.

Finally, I found it by searching the entire system (using a tool called Everything).
Here's the file it was in (not a shortcut): 

C:\Users\Pat\AppData\Local\Amazon\Kindle\application\Kindle.exe
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PDQpat
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Instead of searching for the app (C:\Users{yourusername}\AppData\Local\Amazon\Kindle\application\Kindle.exe) I now use a little tool called Shortcut Key explorer by RJL Software. It finds all keyboard shortcuts and allows you to edit them. [http://www.rjlsoftware.com/software/utility/shortcutkeys/][1] [1]: http://www.rjlsoftware.com/software/utility/shortcutkeys/

PDQpat
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You can also remove it with powershell (in admin mode)

$shell = New-Object -ComObject WScript.Shell
$startMenuPath = [System.Environment]::GetFolderPath([System.Environment+SpecialFolder]::StartMenu)
$shortcutPath = "$startMenuPath\Programs\Amazon\Amazon Kindle\Kindle.lnk"
$shortcut = $shell.CreateShortcut($shortcutPath)
$shortcut.Hotkey = ""
$shortcut.Save()
KyleMit
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