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On my keyboard, I have a Power button and a Standby button next to the media keys.

When I set up hotkeys, the media keys work and get intercepted properly.

However, if I use the Sleep hotkey, and attach a messagebox to it, the computer goes to sleep, and when I wake it up, I can see the messagebox there waiting for me, so I know the hotkey is getting caught by ahk, but the computer still sleeps.

I never had this problem on Windows 7. So, Windows 10 is not allowing ahk to completely intercept the hotkey, it seems.
What is the trick for Windows 10 and the special Standby or Power buttons on my keyboard?

BGM wrote: ↑

06 Oct 2020, 10:40

What is the trick for Windows 10 and the special Standby or Power buttons on my keyboard?

Iirc correctly, I had to de-activate the corresponding button on my keyboard somehwere in the Win10 settings (either keyboard or power settings, I think), before I could remap it without going into standby...

Edit:
The one keyboard button I have I de-activated in the Powersaving settings (I would post a screenshot, but it's all in german).

Hey! That did the trick! I disabled both the power and sleep buttons in Power Settings, and now the keyboard special buttons work without turning off the computer.

Thanks! I never thought of that. Actually, I must have had them disabled on my Win7, because I figure the same thing would have happened then, too, now that I think about it this way.