latop restarting itself (something to do with hotkeys)

[The Passenger]

my laptop has been restarting itself recently.

it only does this when i'm playing computer games which take up the full screen, and are not windowed.

the screen then flashes back to the desktop screen and there is a dialog box (sometimes two or three of them), which says something about hotkeysapp.exe and it's having problems and then about 2 seconds later the computer restarts. i don't even have time to read the error message in full, but i know it's about hotkeys.

anyone know why hotkeys could be doing this??

 

[Ant_]

my laptop has been restarting itself recently.

it only does this when i'm playing computer games which take up the full screen, and are not windowed.

the screen then flashes back to the desktop screen and there is a dialog box (sometimes two or three of them), which says something about hotkeysapp.exe and it's having problems and then about 2 seconds later the computer restarts. i don't even have time to read the error message in full, but i know it's about hotkeys.

anyone know why hotkeys could be doing this??

Is your laptop a Acer?

http://www.processlibrary.com/directory/files/hotkeyapp/

You could disable it from starting.

 

[The Passenger]

nah its a fujitsu. just realised hotkeysapp appears in my process on task manager so am just stopping it at startup now.