Is there a way to unhook a global hotkey in windows?

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Published on 2010-02-12T01:54:33Z Indexed on 2010/03/20 19:01 UTC
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I'm running Windows 7, and I installed an application that installed a global hot key (ctrl+shift+space) which conflicts with another application (Visual Studio) that uses that hotkey (though, not globally, only applications specific).

The question is, knowing which application it is (ScanSnap Manager) and that it doesn't have a setting to turn off the hot key, is there a way I disable it through Windows somehow?

Thanks!

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