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I'm having a very strange problem. At seemingly random times my Alt button is being pressed. This is extremely annoying because it cause the menu bar to activate and it steals focus.

when running an empty script and looking and the "Key history and script info" this shows up


the 'a' means artificial

When running a script that kills the alt key (Alt:: ) it seems as though the button is being triggered every 59.83 seconds, pretty much 1 minute.



Is there any way I can figure out what is triggering this. It happens when my keyboard is unplugged by the way.

First, it may not be autohotkey that is sending the alt, it is obviously not hardware problem either.
Reinstall the latest version of ahk.
Try getting another key history app (aka keylogger) that records virtual key presses and run it and check if alt is being pressed while ahk isn't open.

Right-Click on the Taskbar & run the Task Manager
Click the Process Tab and check is there are any
Autohtokey.exe processes running.
If any are running, get the name of the script
search for it on you're hard drive and
check if there is any hotkey or send command
with the ALT key.

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This all happens when there are no AHK scripts running. I'm just using AHK in an attempt to find out what is sending the keypress. Is there any other programs out there that could log virtual keystrokes and perhaps tell what application/process is doing it?

You could remove processes with windows task manager and check if alt is still being pressed every time.
Sorry, I don't know of any application tells what application a virtual key press is coming from.