As far as I&#39;ve been able to find out, Windows doesn&#39;t offer an API function to tell what application has registered a global hotkey (via RegisterHotkey). I can only find out that a hotkey is registered if RegisterHotkey returns false, but not who &quot;owns&quot; the hotkey.

In the absence of a direct API, could there be a roundabout way? Windows maintains the handle associated with each registred hotkey - it&#39;s a little maddening that there should be no way of getting at this information.

Example of something that likely wouldn&#39;t work: send (simulate) a registered hotkey, then intercept the hotkey message Windows will send to the process that registered it. First, I don&#39;t think intercepting the message would reveal the destination window handle. Second, even if it were possible, it would be a bad thing to do, since sending hotkeys would trigger all sorts of potentially unwanted activity from various programs. 

It&#39;s nothing critical, but I&#39;ve seen frequent requests for such functionality, and have myself been a victim of applications that register hotkeys without even disclosing it anywhere in the UI or docs. 

(Working in Delphi, and no more than an apprentice at WinAPI, please be kind.)

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