Windows Key shortcut to open Everything

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Everything 1.5.0.1401a adds support for enabling a low level keyboard hook to override existing hotkeys.

To create a Windows Key shortcut to open Everything:

• In Everything 1.5, from the Tools menu, click Options.
• Click the Advanced tab on the left.
• To the right of Show settings containing, search for:
  hotkey
• Select: hotkey_low_level_keyboard_hook
• Set the value to: true
• Click OK.
  
• Type in the following Everything search and press ENTER:
  
  /show_window_key=2118
  
  Where 2118 is the key code. 2118 is Win+F
  See below for a list of key codes.
• If successful, show_window_key=2118 is shown in the status bar for a few seconds.

Win + Keys

Code	Key
2113	Win + A
2114	Win + B
2115	Win + C
2116	Win + D
2117	Win + E
2118	Win + F
2119	Win + G
2120	Win + H
2121	Win + I
2122	Win + J
2123	Win + K
2124	Win + L
2125	Win + M
2126	Win + N
2127	Win + O
2128	Win + P
2129	Win + Q
2130	Win + R
2131	Win + S
2132	Win + T
2133	Win + U
2134	Win + V
2135	Win + W
2136	Win + X
2137	Win + Y
2138	Win + Z
3206	Win + Shift + F23 (Copilot key)

Key codes

[w64bit]

Can it be set as toggle?

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To create a Windows Key shortcut to toggle Everything:

• In Everything 1.5, from the Tools menu, click Options.
• Click the Advanced tab on the left.
• To the right of Show settings containing, search for:
  hotkey
• Select: hotkey_low_level_keyboard_hook
• Set the value to: true
• Click OK.
  
• Type in the following Everything search and press ENTER:
  
  /show_window_key=
• If successful, show_window_key= is shown in the status bar for a few seconds.
  
• Type in the following Everything search and press ENTER:
  
  /toggle_window_key=2118
  
  Where 2118 is the key code. 2118 is Win+F
  See above for a list of key codes.
• If successful, toggle_window_key=2118 is shown in the status bar for a few seconds.

[w64bit]

Thank you.

When you toggle/hide it, it become a background process.
It's still monitoring all as a background process?
I mention that I don't' have the service active.

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Yes, Everything will run in the background and keep your index up-to-date.

If you have unchecked Tools -> Options -> UI -> Run in background, Everything will not run in the background and will exit instead.

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Everything 1.5.0.1405a fixes an issue with hotkeys being triggered unexpectedly after unlocking a session.

Everything 1.5.0.1405a fixes an issue with ALT hotkeys.

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In Version 1.5.0.1422b (x64), Win-W still shows the Windows start menu on Windows 10 together with Everything. It appears that first it shows Everything's window and then Windows steals the focus for its own start menu. Somehow the key passes to two handlers. So I end up in an open Everything but without focus, or if Everything is in the background, it flashes. I rebooted because I had a DisabledHotKeys but it didn't fix it. That reminds me of a focus/flashing problem I had in a program that spawned another window that I solved using shellexecute.