Here’s a nice tip on how to create a keyboard shortcut for launching Firefox in Windows. Just right click on shortcut icon of Firefox and open its Properties dialog.

Under Shortcut key in Shortcut tab press any alpha-numeric key on your keyboard and shortcut will be created as Ctrl+Alt+ [your key] e.g. if you press F on your keyboard, shortcut will be created as Ctrl+Alt+F.

This shortcut is quite useful when you need to launch Firefox, when you have several windows open and don’t want to minimize them to get to Firefox shortcut or  so tired to click on start menu and browse for Firefox shortcut.

This technique can be used for almost any program, just drop its shortcut on Desktop and apply above procedure to create a shortcut. This method works both in Windows XP and Vista.