Its easy to create keyboard shortcuts just follow few tips and tricks in Windows to open programs faster. Keyboard shortcuts allow you to open the programs from the Desktop or Quick launch bar. You need to create it before you want to open such programs, to which you want to assign a keyboard shortcut. There two ways to create shortcut, first is "right click" on the Desktop and click "New" in the context menu then click "Shortcut ". Here you need to manually add the executable file location or browse and select the desired file to create shortcut. The second way is to do it is to locate the file in the My Computer or Windows Explorer and then right click it and select create shortcut in the context menu. The shortcut will be placed in the same folder, select it and cut it and paste it on the Desktop. You could create shortcut for any type of file.