After some update, Alt F7 hotkey stopped working in Far Manager and Total Commander.
I tried stopping all processes like explorer, realtek utility, nvidia utility, one drive — didn’t help.
When booting in Safe Mode however, Alt F7 works just fine, so it’s not the hardware problem.
How do I find out which application or Windows component stole the hotkey?
38 Answers
Open NVidia GeForce Experience Settings -> General
Disable Share totally (newer: In-Game Overlay). This will free the binding of Alt F7 among lots of others.
If you do use Share feature you can use this alternative:
Press Alt + Z when you are on desktop for example: Settings -> Keyboard Shortcuts Change the binding of Alt + F7 to something else.
7Could not add comments and upvote answer with Nvidia Geforce Experience as an issue. It helps me too, but I does not reinstall, I just disabled Alt+z hokey in settings - "share" functionality.
1Yes, NVidia GeForce Experience was the reason! However, on my PC it was not called "Share", but "IN_GAME OVERLAY". As soon as I disabled the IN_GAME OVERLAY, all shortcuts in Far started working.
I also had the same issue, after not having the shortcut functioning now for well over 2 years, I am still automatically using it. So today I wanted to figure out.
I found that both on my PC and Laptop the culprit stealing my shortcut was the Geforce Experience. Just deleted the shortcut from there and now it's working for me.
I thought I share this here because I think it is a much used software that could lead to the same problem by others.
I had same issue, and strangely enough, it was resolved after updating Nvidia Geforce Experience.
0In current version of GeForce Experience (3.8.0.89) the feature that needs to be switched off or adjusted, is called In-Game Overlay. By default, it uses Alt+F7 to pause/resume broadcasting.
1Media Player Classic Homecinema v 1.7.13 caused me this.
Also Chrome did not start (closed immediately), and some other weird app closing.
My best guess is using Global Hotkeys function of MPC-HC. Hard to test, because not happening immediately opening MPC-HC, but incorrect working stops when I close it.
The accepted answer worked for me too (), but: If Geforce Experience doesn't have full internet access it may not show the necessary options to disable the shortcuts. I was behind a VPN, with internet access going through a proxy, so I could download and install Geforce Experience, but not disabling the options, only with direct internet access I could change the options.
