How to set up custom commands for my computer?

Question

On of the features of Dragon Naturally Speaking software is you can create a custom voice command by recording the action you wanted the command to complete. So If I wanted to open a certain photo album by its name I would speak its name for the voice command then hit record to show it the action I needed it to do to pull up that album, which would be clicking my docs - my pics-my albums then the album. So once I created that command I could just say it and the album would open. My question is I do not need the voice recognition software, I would like to know of a software or method of creating these custom commands but executing them with keys on my keyboard.

Answer 1

You can create keyboard shortcuts in windows



http://www.lytebyte.com/2007/03/13/how-to-create-custom-keyboard-shortcut-to-open-any-application/



you cant really record whatever you want it to do though, jus tmake it run applications...but if you know what you are doign you can do more complex things by making it call a custom batch file (.bat) or your own programmed application



The closest you could get is having a batch file in your C:/windows directory(for example it could be called album.bat)



you can put inside the album.bat file:



explorer C:\Users\YourName\Pictures\%1





but change it so that C:\Users\YourName\Pictures is the directory where your album folders are



To make the bat file you just open up Notepad put in the text, btu when you save it, change the drop down box from .txt to All files then explicitly put the filename as album.bat



Now press Windows key and R to bring up the run command then type:

album AlbumName



and it will open your album in windows explorer





obviously this wont work on anything but windows

Answer 2

First you have to create a shortcut to the actual program file. This shortcut can sit anywhere, but on the desktop or in your Start > Program menu is probably more accessible.



Then right-click on the shortcut file > Properties.

On the Shortcut tab, in the "Shortcut key" field, click your mouse in the text field, then just type in the key command you want. It will populate the field with what you entered.

Click the OK button to save it.

Now you can use that key command to open the shortcut to the program.

Answer 3

Just create a desktop shortcut to the file or folder.