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Not sure where to post this so I'm dumping it in this thread, which seems to be the most recent Alt-Tab related question. I've chanced upon this solution through a bit of trial and error. It may be superior to actually using !{Tab}, which I recall wasn't always working 100% reliably plus it causes s...

I see, thanks!

Isn't it the default to have to run shutdown.exe (plus, I assume, other shutdown commands like a shutdown.ahk) from an elevated command prompt? This article suggests elevating by default. Thanks!

What happens when you click launch Shutdown.ahk without admin privileges :? Literally nothing. The script runs but the shutdown command has no effect. I've tried other command line-based methods of shutting down the PC, e. g. nircmd, but none have any effect on my PC unless run with admin privilege...

Thanks for your reply, SKAN! Currently, I can't get Autohotkey's Shutdown command to work unless the command is issued with admin privileges. I don't understand! why? Me neither but if I create a script Shutdown.ahk with the only command Shutdown, 1 and execute it from Total Commander (running non-p...

Greetings! Here is how I would like to use this script. Is it possible and how would I have to modify it? Too daft to figure it out myself just now. Run the first instance elevated through Windows task scheduler every time the PC starts, but have it do nothing except wait to be called with a simple ...

In case anyone is looking for a way to do this that also works with suspend states changed via hotkeys, not just through the tray menu, I have set up a timer to give me notification: global SuspendState := 0 SetTimer, T_SuspendNotify, 250 T_SuspendNotify: if (A_IsSuspended and !SuspendState) { Suspe...

Have been looking at all the scripts I could find on the forum that call ScrollWindowEx but I couldn't figure it out, i. e. any attempts I made didn't have any (scrolling) effect on the active window. All I'd want for now would be to have a hotkey that, when pressed, calls the ScrollWindowEx Dll to ...

I solved the issue by saving the script's starting time (A_TickCount) to a global variable in the auto-execute section. In the function, I make execution of the Critical command depend on an if statement that checks whether at least 3 seconds have elapsed since the script started to make sure the ca...

Yeah, sorry, this thread started out rather messy.

I see. Thanks a lot for the detailed explanation! I guess the dodgy part was that the Crtical statement was "hidden" inside that function.

Turns out this issue was also affecting KeyWait, not just ClipWait. Wading back through backups, I was able to identify the change that led to the issue. It was having this function call in the auto-execute section of my script: PP_Cmd("cl.SetIcon(?$B_TB$, ?$WhatLang$, ?$c:\Users\PK\MyIcons\alphabet...

Setting up this hotkey as a blank new script file, it works correctly. How could we narrow down what's going wrong in the other script?

Weird, I get:
It's a large script, 243 KB but it is the only one running permanently. AHK version is 1.1.33.09.

Thanks! Adapting your code slightly to clear the clipboard so that ClipWait has something to wait for: $a:: downTime := A_TickCount Clipboard := "" ClipWait 0.24 Return $a Up:: upTime := A_TickCount, elapsed := upTime - downTime MsgBox, 64, Times, Down = %downTime%`nUp = %upTime%`nElapsed = %elapsed...

[Mod edit: Topics merged.] Hey. I think this has started happening only recently but I'm not aware of anything I did (like updating AHK or changing the script's directives) that might have caused this change in behavior. The problem is this: On the downpress, one of my hotkeys calls a function that...

Please see second post below, first attempt was incomplete.

Found the solution here . Just make sure you remove % from the keyword and operator lists in case you have it in there. Alternatively, if you want different styling options for both uses of %: 1. Define % as a keyword that requires a prefix - this covers your %var% cases. 2. Add % to the operator li...

Xtra: Sorry, I must have misread that statement. So there is no limit on the number of cases? Great, thanks! boiler: I do appreciate your feedback and am thankful for the fix that you offered, which I'm now using in one of my scripts. :bravo: If your objection was merely one of form (which it now se...

I do not care exactly why the return s are there, I want usability. The facts are that this is Auto hotkey , so invariably Switch will frequently be used towards the end of hotkey routines with Cases ended by return and - because Switch is usually lenghty and gets in the way of surrounding code - wi...