Make custom keyboard shortcuts for Windows 7

There are lots of places in one’s computer that one might navigate to. With the increasing sizes of hard drives and increase in your data storage capacity such place are also increasing and your computer is turning into a confusing labyrinth of unused data. All of this makes it difficult to get to a place you want to go. You have to browse your computer and have to go over a series of clicking and double clicking to reach the destination folder… its frustrating I know!

But you will never have to go through that excruciating ordeal ever again if you know how to make customized key board shortcuts for the folders that you use most.

Following is a 6-step easy method to create your personal customized keyboard shortcuts for Windows 7 so you don’t waste time browsing through, getting lost then again finding your way through your computer:

• Navigate to the folder (for the last time!) you want to create the shortcut for.
• Create a shortcut of the folder on your desktop by doing these steps

Right-click > Send to > Desktop (create shortcut)

• Find the Shortcut folder on the desktop. It will be named as Shortcut to {Folder name}.Go to the Shortcut tab in its properties by doing the following steps:

Right-click > Properties > Shortcut

OR

Alt + Enter (It will take you directly to the Shortcut tab of your folder’s shortcut)

• Now locate the field labeled Shortcut key. Here you can select your shortcut keys.
  As shortcut keys are used by several other applications so your folder has to have a shortcut key that is unique to it. Shortcut keys can be made by using any key (except for Esc, Enter, Space, Tab, Delete, Context Menu Button and Windows button) in combinations with Ctrl + Shift, Ctrl + Alt and Shift + Alt keys.
• Test your shortcut keys on a clear desktop first to see if they are vacant or already in use.
• When you have decided the combination put it in the Shortcut key field in the right order (windows will help you with it).
  Apply the settings and hit OK. Test your shortcut key to see if its works

DONOT delete the Shortcut of the folder from the desktop or your shortcut key will stop working.

If you want to avoid clutter on your desktop due to such shortcuts then hide them by selecting the shortcut and following these steps:
Right-Click > Properties > General > (Check) Hidden > OK

Source: ♠Hacker Is Better ♠