Ctrl+Alt+M no longer working in Photoshop Elements 2018 HELP PLEASE!

[CJFJRPA]

I am running windows 10 and have used PE 2018 since it came out and all of a sudden Ctrl+Alt+M just stopped working.  Can anyone suggest a solution.  I took PE completely off my computer, went into REGEDIT and deleted anything related to PE and reloaded it and it still does not work.  This is a bit of a pain since it was a quick and easy step when editing large numbers of photos.

Any ADOBE Tech people able to give me hand?

Would greatly appreciate solving this problem.

Cjf

[Jeff Arola]

That's Enhance>Auto Smart Fix?

If you go to Window>History, do you see an Auto Smart Fix step?

You can reset the photoshop elements preferences by going to Edit>Preferences>General, clicking on Reset Preferences on next launch and restarting the pse 2018 editor.

[lehwen]

I have the same problem with Elements 14.  Auto Smart Fix works, just the key combination of Alt-Ctrl-M no longer works.  I have to click "Enhance", then select "Auto Smart Fix" to invoke it, causing a massive productivity loss since it is very frequently used.

It worked at the beginning, then it stopped after using Elements 14 a couple of months or so.  I switched the computer a while back and moved Elements 14 to the new computer.  Lo and behold, Alt-Ctrl-M worked again and I was very happy.  Unfortunately, after using Elements for a while, it stopped working AGAIN.

I suspect it may have something to do with something being accummulated overtime causing the hot-key table to be overwritten.

Will appreciate any solutions to this.

[Jeff Arola]

Try resetting the pse 14 preferences.

You can reset the photoshop elements preferences by going to Edit>Preferences>General, clicking on Reset Preferences on next launch and restarting the pse 14 editor.

[lehwen]

Thanks!  I did the reset before my previous posting.  It did not solve the issue.

[Medha_Sharma]

Hello,

You might need to check if there's any other app that owns this hotkey.

Though this thread is about another application, it might be of some help for you to figure out if there's an app which owns Ctrl + Alt + M shortcut.

keyboard shortcuts - What is preventing ctrl-alt-m from reaching IntelliJ on Windows 10? - Super Use...

Thanks,

Medha

[lehwen]

Medha, yes your direction fixed the issue.  Thank you so much!!

Leh-Wen

[Medha_Sharma]

Happy to help!

Thanks,

Medha