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Set your own hotkeys

At any time, even the main window is not active or visible, you can press the hotkey to start recording. The program's default Record/Pause hotkey is "F8", Stop hotkey is "F9", Cancel Recording Key is "ESCAPE". But the system hotkey may be used by other program, and you will see a "Register hotkey error" popup. Then you can set up your own hotkey to that hasn't been used.
To set your own hotkey, firstly from the main menu, choose Options->Hotkeys; Then set focus to the hotkey edit box (this means to click on the edit box and show the cursor in it); And press down the keys you want to set as hotkey. Click "OK" button to enable the setting. If you still see a "Register hotkey error" popup, you can set it again until the popup doesn't appear.