Keyboard Shortcut to open Bitwarden on Windows

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Instructions for Windows 10 & 11:

  1. Find the Bitwarden Desktop App icon in the Start Menu or in the “All Apps” list (accessible from the Start Menu).
  2. Right-click the app icon, and select “Open file location” (in the “All Apps” list, you may first have to select “More”). This should take you to a Bitwarden shortcut icon in Windows Explorer.
  3. Right-click the shortcut icon, and select “Properties”. This should open a “Bitwarden Properties” window with multiple tabs.
  4. Go to the “Shortcut” tab in the Properties window, and look for the field named “Shortcut key” with the value “None”.
  5. In the “Shortcut key” field, place the cursor at the end of the word “None”, and type a single backslash character (\), or any other character of your choice. The field should now read “Ctrl + Alt + \”.
  6. Click OK.

You should now be able to launch the app using the keyboard shortcut Ctrl+Alt+\.

If you prefer, you can press a function key (F1–F12) in Step 5, in which case the function key by itself will launch the app.

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