>> Would parallelizing the code in Explorer that does this scan help?
[That only speeds up the case where the app is already running. The initial launch will still have to wait. -Raymond]
Yes, but it would bring the total down to 3 seconds, as opposed to a cumulative total of n*3. Which happens to me a lot. (not just hot keys, also the DDE open/print verbs)
[True. Or apps could stop going unresponsive. -Raymond]