How find what is preventing hotkey?

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How can I find out what is prevent a particular hotkey of mine from
working.

When I press 'CTRL ALT O' the associated application no longer
launches. Instead I get a flicker of the screen. If my cursor is in
a text entry box then a special character for O gets written when i
use that hotkey (O with an acute accent: ó).

I tried utility which check for Windows Hotkey assignments in all the
"hot" places such as desktop, start menus, etc. But it can't find
any other hotkey assigned using a shortcut with that combination of
keys.

(Hotkey Detective by PC Magazine. See
http://www.pcmag.com/print_article [...] 64,00.asp)

No other application is open which uses that combination.

How can I track down what is picking up my 'CTRL ALT O' and prevent
it getting to launch my custom shortcut?

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On 26 Oct 2004, a nonymous wrote:

> "Zarbol Tsar" <zarbol@tsar.net> wrote
>| How can I find out what is prevent a particular hotkey of mine
>| from working.
>|
>| When I press 'CTRL ALT O' the associated application no longer
>| launches. Instead I get a flicker of the screen. If my cursor
>| is in a text entry box then a special character for O gets
>| written when i use that hotkey (O with an acute accent: ó).
>|
>| I tried utility which check for Windows Hotkey assignments in
>| all the "hot" places such as desktop, start menus, etc. But it
>| can't find any other hotkey assigned using a shortcut with that
>| combination of keys.
>|
>| (Hotkey Detective by PC Magazine. See
>| http://www.pcmag.com/print_article [...] 64,00.asp)
>|
>| No other application is open which uses that combination.
>|
>| How can I track down what is picking up my 'CTRL ALT O' and
>| prevent it getting to launch my custom shortcut?
>
>
> Try using Left-Alt and Left-Ctrl keys.
>
> CONCEPTS:
> http://weblogs.asp.net/oldnewthing [...] 01121.aspx
> Why Ctrl+Alt shouldn't be used as a shortcut modifier


Interesting link.