Windows 10: Change key (numlock) to open program (calc), pref no 3rd party

My laptop has a 10 key and I will literally never turn numlock off, and so I figured I could keep numlock to always be on (it's current behavior) as well as function to pull up the calc program.

I understand I can probably obtain this functionality from 3rd party apps, like Autohotkey or sharpkeys, but I wanted to see if this was possible without having an app running at all times (ie: changing registry values or some base behavior in windows). If I can only get this functionality by 3rd party, would you recommend Autohotkey, sharpkeys, or some other program?

To summarize: Keep numlock always on. Change numlock key to open a program (calc).

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How To Open Last Window/Program (Maybe 3rd Party Program?)

If you simply launch Notepad, rt click on the taskbar icon, you should see a jump list.

 

How To Open Last Window/Program (Maybe 3rd Party Program?)

You might be right on that! *Redface

 

How To Open Last Window/Program (Maybe 3rd Party Program?)



*Note*: I may have disabled Recent Files list somewhere, but I don't really need that feature. I just want to open that last opened window if it was closed.

dalchina: I have the "Old-Skool" right clicking on the program in the task bar, because even though the new one looks nicer, there are times where I have encountered bugs with that when right clicking doesn't do anything. I dunno if it's software relates, or graphics card related, and I never wanted to deal with that. So I have this opion enabled, because it also has minimize, Maximize, etc...





Edwin: "It's the 'Pick up where you left off' part of Cortana... (WinKey+S)"
I don't see what I see in your screenshot.






Callender:
I 'may' check out "Quick Cliq", looks like a good app, but don't really want an additional Taskbar Icon in the right corner (or an extra open program) necessarily. But I may check it out.




dalchina: No jump lists for me, because of the first image above in this same reply.


Edwin:
"My 'Recent's' are all (and I mean all of them!) on the Desktop, just one right click away, via QTTabBar..."
Okay, I may check out QTTabBar, but it's an extra program in the background. Maybe a Registry tweak would be nice.


Extra info:
I want my TaskBar to look clean just like the way it looks in this image. I don't want a search bar or anything additional other than what you see in the TaskBar:




*Final Note*: Maybe if in Classic Shell from the image above with "Recent items" if it can show the last 3 opened items or so (I'm all about simplicity) that would be great. It seems like Quick Cliq could change that amount, but lists it within its program in the bottom right of the screen.