@Bri Quickly looked into this: I think that as soon as the keyboard hook in the hotkey field detects input, it checks the "shortcut" box, and creates the shell link. That represents a pretty odd design, rather than e.g. allowing you to check the box yourself, specify the hotkey afterwards, and then press OK/Save. On top of that, add the fact that the keyboard hook presumably captures Tab, instead of ignoring it. @menelion
@jscholes @Bri@fwoof.space @menelion yeah funnily enough I've made this mistake when trying to assign target shortcut through alt+enter properties dialog manually even myself to NVDA - only to discover it made the shortcut the tab key. With how it does keyhooking perhaps alt+CTRL got as stuck keys when it launched and didn't unlock, so tab was firing the shortcut. But if it auto-bound to tab key after install, now that's a bit odd for sure.