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First of all, I realy love this great program!!
Now my problem: ...

I'v made a very simple script to catch WINDOWS-D (#d) and make it dump the current date.

heres my code


now when doing regular windows things like email etc ... windows will now and then get confused and when i press the key "d" (WITHOUT the windows key) it prints out the date or minimizes all my applications (the normal windows behaviour for WINDOWS-D key)

My question:
- How to make the default WINDOWS-D key dead.
- if there is an error in my script, please let me know.

Your script looks fine to me... but i'm no expert... would be curious to see what the explanation is

This might work too. It should only fire the hotkey when the WIN key is in down state. Untested though

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Paul O

oo thanx for the feedback guys!!


both seem very plausible sollutions to me.

i'll try the sollution from vahju first.
Ill let you know if the problem comes back.

as extra infomation i would like to say that i use a lot of hotkeys controlled by autohotkey. Yeah i know, i'm one of those guys that prefer the keyboard above the mouse

anyway, all those other hotkeys do not make any trouble at all though they are way more advanced than the simple windows-d script.

I'll be back
thanx a lot guys!

hmmm, i was so happy it did work until today

now i have the same problem with the key "u"

same story as with windows-d key
sometimes but not allways, when i simply press the key "u" windows starts the program "narator" it is a program i even never use lol

so i think the problem is deeper to be found in windows or autohotkey or both.

i use windows xp english sp3

BTW you know that DATE and TIME commands can be run directly from comspec right?

Just go to start - run - type cmd

Enter Date or Time and you will see what I mean. Now those can both be run from comspec

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paradigm.shift:=(•_•)┌П┐RTFM||^.*∞

The obvious solution would be that one of these is leaving the windows key down. I'd investigate that possibility first.

sure, i knew that hehe

i use the date "hotkey" to fill in the date where i need it in windows programs, is very handy so i dont have to type the date over and over again.

i do not understand jaco0646, are you joking?

Why not try adding an additional modifier and see if you get the same behavior? Instead of #d, switch it to ^#d, which isn't particularly obtrusive to your normal keystrokes.

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Try Quick Search for Autohotkey or see the tutorial for newbies.

i found in the manual (yes i know we all should rtfm) ....
to use Sendplay as prefered to Send

now (so far) it works as it should for about +- 10 days now
the trouble did not come back once at all.