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I have the following predicament. Recently, I have (almost successfully) migrated my old install of Win2K to a new box. The magnitude of the hassle it has proven is well beyond the scope of this board. At this point, I believe that there's but one issue separating me from being able to use my machine again - which is where I hope AutoHotKey might help.

When the OS comes up, it goes through its hardware detection routine, until it encounters an unsigned driver and pops up a dialog that needs to be dismissed with a keystroke or mouse click. Therein lies the problem -- by this time neither keyboard nor mouse is detected yet, making it impossible to continue.

So my idea is to install AutoHotKey on the machine's disk from another box, put it in the startup folder and script it in such a way that it always clicks the button in focus in the topmost window. Once the entire detection process is completed, keyboard/mouse should be usable again, and I will have no immediate need for AutoHotKey again!

The big question is - is this feasible?

TIA

Cant you just login in safemode and uninstall that driver/ install one thats signed?

Maybe the pc's bios is screwed up. The keyboard and mouse should be detected, at least somewhat, by the bios.

Hey, it worked! I now have the keyboard in Windows, so now I'm back in business. Don't ask me what it took, suffice it to say that I will never install another Microsoft OS on any computer I own again.

AutoHotKey, however, rocks!

yeah I don't think they have a autohotkey for Linux yet.