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I have the same issue. Win7 and WinXP.

Any mouse movement, clicks or typing does this. Older version worked fine...

The downside to using something like AHK for this, is that scripts can easily be bypassed. If the user boots the PC up offline, or boots it into safe more, or installs a new OS, then your security me ...

In case anyone missed it..

Seren posted a way to have the CapsLock show/hide the window list. It only takes about 5 seconds to modify the script, and it works great.

Another bit of info. Some apps do not function well if you change their window titles. So keep that in mind when you get this done. If things are going nutty, it could be the change in window title.

No. I wouldn't use it. I use SlickRun and AHK to launch and automate what I need.

HWND is the window handle. A way of referencing a window. Every window has a HWND. And many things are windows (applications, controls (including input fields, etc). Sometimes text on screen is a ...

And remember... you can set the speed for most of the mouse commands. So if you don't want the user seeing slow mouse movements, try setting the speed to 0.

VB makes activeX style DLL's. I don't know of AHK can instantiate an ActiveX dll or not. But the regular DLL calls won't work with a ActiveX DLL.

@ahklerner:

This is a double quote.
"

And this is a single quote.
'

And just for fun:

This is a back-tick or a back-quote.
`

So to enclose something in double quotes, you do ...

Works OK for me in VS 2005. Running Windows 2k.

I know that Vista and VS 2005 didn't play well either. So maybe it's a Vista VS 2005 issue?

Here is how I automate similar tasks.

Record the steps with the macro recorder (AutoScriptWriter).

Then modify the script to do tweak it the way you want.

I think if you do this, you'll get s ...

Those alternate copy/paste functions date back to DOS days. If you open the old DOS Edit program, you'll see them there.

And any app that supports Copy/Paste will support the alternate methods. I ...