Open Programs with Keyboard Shortcuts

Shortcuts are pretty fast for opening programs but keyboard shortcuts are even quicker.  Here's how to create keyboard shortcuts for your favorite programs.  Take a icon shortcut living on your desktop and right click it then select properties.  In the 'shortcut' tab click on the 'shortcut keytext bar' and enter a letter.  The text bar will change to Ctrl + Alt + whatever key you entered.  Note this key has to be uppercase.

Try it out!  You can always go back and change it by redoing the above process and just backspacing to remove whatever letter you entered, the text box will return to 'none' for its entry.