how to make autoit to use a hotkey

[nadah]

I just want to press ALT+CTRL+DEL but it doesnt seem to be working when i try with Send() or ControlSend()

can anyone help ??

[Jos]

N.B. Windows does not allow the simulation of the "CTRL-ALT-DEL" combination!

[nadah]

windows does not allow any of the Hotkeys simulation ?? thas sad :-(

i actually wanna do a ALT+CTRL+SHIFT+F5

Edited October 31, 2008 by nadah

[Jos]

windows does not allow any of the Hotkeys simulation ?? thas sad :-(

This statement is valid for Ctrl+Alt+Delete, not for Hotkeys in general.

[mistersquirrle]

From the AutoIt help file:

Example of how to pause a script

Global $Paused
HotKeySet("{PAUSE}", "TogglePause")


Func TogglePause()
    $Paused = NOT $Paused
    While $Paused
        sleep(100)
        ToolTip('Script is "Paused"',0,0)
    WEnd
    ToolTip("")
EndFunc

Look through the help file for more information and for more key stroke information.

Edited October 31, 2008 by mistersquirrle

[FaT3oYCG]

i think he specifically wanted to open the taskmanager by sending the key combination not setting it as a hotkey, althou you say ctrl + alt + del wont work, on my windows ctrl + shift + esc opens the taskmanager aswell.

[mistersquirrle]

i actually wanna do a ALT+CTRL+SHIFT+F5

I just tried making a script to send that command, but task manager doesn't start. normally it does but I don't think you can launch task manager using send

you could do

Send("#r")
    WinWaitActive("Run")
    Send("taskmgr.exe{Enter}")

[Richard Robertson]

That is kinda stupid. Just Run("taskmgr.exe").

[trancexx]

That is kinda stupid. Just Run("taskmgr.exe").

I just started writting and saw this post.

Man, you are fast

[FaT3oYCG]

well maybe you should test before you say as that does not work i tried it before and just now aswell.

[trancexx]

well maybe you should test before you say as that does not work i tried it before and just now aswell.

Your OS?

[FaT3oYCG]

Windows XP Proffesional SP3

Edited November 1, 2008 by FaT3oYCG

[trancexx]

Windows XP Proffesional SP3

That is because you have very strange PID.

No, I'm kidding.

Unless you get message out of taskmgr.exe saying that your administrator disbled it for you, your system is not acting as it should. You might check AV logs or whatever.