h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

hey all i am in a odd transition right now to a better job so i might be posting inconsistantly please be forgiving in this. how is everyone? good i hope! and let anyone who is wondering know what is up! miss you folks

lil...

paul... and have a blast in india!

Post whenever you can love

I will miss you!

quick sign on hun tell all that things are well and wil be back online about sat ask around the word

and a quick fav... ask some tech heads you know i am attempting to find a progie that will track key strokes on my home comp (a pc desktop) think i have a "in house security risk". if they know just send em to my site to post a message so demanding i am reserching my self but imput rules lol miss you guys but i have been writing for steer on papper so should be some nice posts coming gonna play sneaky now

to all and 2 the rest

I have left a message with someone who will know who can help you, if he can't do so himself

Keep following the RPG closely.. and you won't go far wrong when you are able to return

I will leave a message for the others in the OOC thread.. btw Paul leaves for India this weekend!!

Yup thisll be my last time on so Hi and Bye Steer

Hello Steerpike369.

The last time I monitored key strokes in Windows it was via a program I'd written myself which was hooked into the usual Windows operating system functions. For example just watching the WM_KEYDOWN, WM_KEYUP, WM_SYSKEYDOWN and WM_SYSKEYUP messages. Since you haven't done this, I presume you are not up to writing your own software.

There were definitely some commercial tools around too - again primarily for programmers (and debuggers). This means they might be expensive for casual use. I suppose there might also be freeware by now though. Are you sure you really want/need to go down this route?

In case you were looking in the wrong sort of places or for the wrong sort of things, I thought I'd do my own quick search for what's out there these days.

I found this PDF document which mentions some products and techniques and thus may cover some of what you need to know:
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I also found a relatively old page which seems to be offering a free version of what you want. Though naturally, not having used it myself, I can't vouch for it. It also doesn't seem to have been tried on the last couple of versions of Windows at all. You didn't say what version you had though (even Windows was an assumption based on you calling it a PC).
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