Otherwise, he could click both buttons all day long and the computer operated just fine. If he needed to right click, he just pointed, pressed NumPad+. Then, I mapped NumPad+ to the right mouse button. He lost dexterity in his hands, and was having a very difficult time because he was clicking both left and right mouse buttons at the same time.ĪHK to the rescue! I re-mapped right mouse button to nothing, effectively disabling it. I'm just overjoyed that AHK is in active development still! Been using it for well over a decade.Ģ014. It'll be a while before I give it a try, because it sounds like I'll have to convert a bunch of stuff- but I'm definitely going to give it a try. It works beautifully almost anywhere (Although, NP++ hates it. I have hundreds of little macros that save me gobs of typing. Whenever I mention why Windows is my OS of choice, one of the very first reasons I list is AHK. To be fair, AV also prevents executing standard metasploit things and attackers have to be a bit more creative which gets tedious and so it can be an indicator of compromise to have this pop an alert even if the attacker succeeds a few minutes later. Not to mention corporate proxies blocking my personal link shortener but being fine with bitly.

fifteen year old me was not very thorough but seems to have worked anyway.Īnd then there are the numerous annoyance occasions where it false-positived on legitimate software like Nirsoft, Cain&Abel, Netcat, Nmap, etc. I never found out what the method of infection was, but after changing back the wallpaper and removing it from startup programs, I suffered no further ill effects. On another occasion (around the same time) it failed to prevent malware from executing. I don't remember the details but there was one time where it prevented me from executing some download that was malicious. > Does anyone remember a true positive from their AV? Look for the little function list that pops up when suggestions are available.ĬontrolGet, X, Visible, SysListView321, ahk_class _XLACOOUTER With this little bit of code, my and keys work the way I want them to in Excel. After some back and forth on my yak-shaving attempt, I realized I could shave it myself with AHK. Just a few days ago I was complaining¹ about how Excel handles formula input.

I've been running it on all my Windows machines for 15 years now. AHK is one of those utilities I absolutely cannot go without.

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