Replace the default Alt+H+P+S, with Paste Shortcut


One of Microsoft’s mistakes is the keyboard hotkey we are obliged to use whenever we need to paste a file as shortcut in Windows Explorer, the famous railway Alt+H+P+S key. I create shortcuts all the time. Right now I’m editing an anthology of my music, and I paste as shortcuts in a separate folder all files I select from my main music folder. Pressing four keys in order to paste a file as shortcut is exhausting, to say the least, for which reason this extremely small app proved indispensable.

Paste Shortcut is small (just 1 MB), portable (no need to install it), free without limitations or nags, and efficient. When you run it, the program immediately replaces the default Windows Alt+H+P+S key with a simple Alt+S. Do you need Alt+S for some other job? No problem, just right click the program’s icon in the system tray and in the Settings menu change Alt+S to whatever you prefer.

If you’d like to have this key active and available each time you open your PC, you can have “Paste Shortcut” run with Windows. To do that, press Win+R, write “Shell:Startup” and press Enter. In the folder that opens (…\Programs\Startup), paste a shortcut to “Paste Shortcut”.

Now the program will start automatically with Windows and whenever you paste a file as shortcut in Windows Explorer, you will be able to use a simple Alt+S, or whatever key you like, instead of the default Alt+H+P+S….

To ensure a trouble-free installation, right-click the setup file and select the option “Run as administrator.” You need also to make sure after the installation is complete, that the program folder and files have write permissions. Finally, to avoid UAC prompts upon startup you can include the program in a whitelist of trusted applications.

Enjoy!

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