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Hi,

i wanted to make a on/off button that not only sees if i press the button (F5) but also can start and stop a script with the same button.

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Srini007 3,490 Super User 2026 Season 1 on at

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Hi @LightningKing

It's better if you can give more details what you want is on / off button, but where exactly you need and tell me are you using Power Automate Desktop?

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Hi @LightningKing

Are you talking about how to run a flow and run a flow with keyboard shortcurt ?

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Thanks, it's pretty much what I was looking for!

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By an on/off button I mean that when the program is on, I can immediately pause it with a quick key (f5). And i am indeed working with ms power automate destop on a laptop

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Srini007 3,490 Super User 2026 Season 1 on at

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Hi @LightningKing

Now if you are running in an Attended Mode, then I believe you can set to your flows to start the flow by going to the 3 dots next to your flow and choose the properties, there it will prompt for "Run with keyboard shortcut" you can set your short cut to start but you will get pause button then you can click that button to pause your flow, I believe currently we don't have shortcut for stop

If you desktop flow is running through cloud flow then you can go to settings next to your environment and you will have different properties to set

It's better to keep different keys, instead of one

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