The Hotkey Command Module for Intel’s onboard graphics card is installed with the driver for the graphics card. The process gives you the option to configure your keyboard, where you can create key combinations that will serve as your shortcut keys, otherwise known as hotkeys. With the hotkeys configured, you can easily launch certain applications without using your mouse. In effect, the process is a useful tool that you can take advantage of, to make computer use easier. However, there have been quite a few reports by users that the process sometimes causes PC hangs. Based on users’ reports, there seems to be another process that gets installed with hkcmd.exe, and this is the IGFXTRAY. With these two in place, there appears to be conflicts with Windows Explorer where the application freezes. This encounter with the two files compelled a number of users to disable both files, preventing them to run upon computer boot-up. Disabling the file will not affect the normal functioning of your keyboard.

Most non-system processes that are running can be stopped because they are not involved in running your operating system. hkcmd.exe. is used by Hotkey Command Module, If you shut down hkcmd.exe, it will likely start again at a later time either after you restart your computer or after an application start. To stop hkcmd.exe, permanently you need to uninstall the application that runs this process which in this case is Hotkey Command Module, from your system.

After uninstalling applications it is a good idea to scan you Windows registry for any left over traces of applications. Registry Reviver by ReviverSoft is a great tool for doing this.

The ReviverSoft experts have not yet reviewed hkcmd.exe

A process usually a part of an installed application such as Hotkey Command Module, or your operating system that is responsible for running in functions of that application. Some application require that they have processes running all the time so they can do things such as check for updates or notify you when you get an instant message. Some poorly written applications have many processes that run that may not be required and take up valuable processing power within your computer.

We have not received any complaint about this process having higher than normal impact on PC performance. If you have had bad experiences with it please let us know in a comment below and we will investigate it further.

The first thing you should do if hkcmd.exe. is causing errors on your computer is to run a Windows registry scan with Registry Reviver If you are still seeing errors after this you should uninstall the program that hkcmd.exe, belongs to, in this case Hotkey Command Module