title: Create a custom command (not application) shortcut in Windows
body: <p>Is it possible to create a custom command shortcut in windows to execute some basic actions, or modify the keys combinations of existing ones?</p>
  
  <p>I suppose to have a greater flexibility I could just create some batch or perl (or whatever) scripts and just create application shortcuts for those, but I was wondering if Windows offer the flexibility to add custom command shortcuts, maybe via the registry?</p>
  
  <p>For example win 7 introduces the ALT+SHIFT+N shortcut to create a new folder, which is simply great. But before there was no shortcut for this kind of basic operation, and it's something that somebody may like to implement if missing.</p>