Registering Keyboard shortcuts with windows

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Hello All,

Thanks for reading my question

I just want to develop a very simple window application which would deal with ClipBoard. for the customization of the process, i just want that on certain key presses let's say (ctrl+Shift+1), when this keypress is done,my application performs some operation. whether the keypress is called at any other application providing my application is running in background.

also is there any event that could let me know when the data contained in ClipBoard is changed.

kindly provide me the guidliees. how would i achieve this ?