Anyway, to cut a long story short I managed, so I’ll share with you:

•Right click anywhere inside a folder, and select new – short cut.

•go through the wizard, and select whatever you want to launch

•once the wizard is finished, right click on the short cut, and go properties.

•From here you will see many options available to you – one of which is the “”key combination”" option.

•Use whatever you want here, but make sure that it isn’t already in use by windows or some other application (control + alt + a letter is good )

That short cut can be used with a key combo like a built in feature of windows. A useful short cut to make is one pointing to the shut-down executable.

If any of you have any interesting tips like this you would like to share, then please do with the comments form.

(Wrote this on my blackberry/crackberry!)