Windows 8 Alt and Windows Key

[jasvindarjit]

The "Alt" and "Windows" keys no longer work on Windows 8 Release
Preview. It worked fine of Windows 8 Customer Preview.

I have Input Director 1.3beta100 installed on the host and client.
Both are running Windows 8 Release Preview.

[xOOn]

With Windows 8 Master and Windows 7 Slave the keys are running

[jasvindarjit]

To clarify the issue, the keys work fine on the master but not on the slave.

[Bluestraw]

Same here.  To clarify, for me it's alt-tab and windows-tab that don't work.  Other alt- and windows- shortcuts are working.

[Bluestraw]

I found a workaround - installed 'Vistaswitcher' which is an alternative alt-tab application, and that works :)

[Shane]

On Jun 13, 4:09 am, jasvindarjit <jasvindar...@gmail.com> wrote:
> The "Alt" and "Windows" keys no longer work on Windows 8 Release
> Preview. It worked fine of Windows 8 Customer Preview.

Hi,

I ran some tests on the Win8 (64bit) Release Preview running on
Virtualbox. I also found that alt-tab didn't work for me, but the
Windows key did.

I'll do some digging into the alt-tab problem. Its possible that
Microsoft has locked it down so that it must be triggered using a real
keyboard (they did this with ctrl-alt-del in Vista for security
reasons, but also provided a registry setting that could be changed so
that programs like Input Director could continue to perform simulated
ctrl-alt-dels).

Regs,

Shane.

[Josh Jordan]

As of today, I am running the Customer Preview on the Master and the RTM on the slave.  Same issue.  Anyone have progress here?

[Allen Look]

Running RTM, Win+X works on the Slave's keyboard, but not from the Master.  Mapping Win+X doesn't bring up the menu either, but rather switches between Metro and the desktop.

[Henrique Pinheiro]

I can use Win+TAB with no problems. Windows and Alt Keys work. The problem is with Alt+Tab.

The guys at chromium got it to work here:

http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=135217

It's an enforcement by Windows 8. Apparently the program need to meet this requirements for it to work:

<quoting>

"In order to call SendSAS() successfully the calling process's binary has to:

 - be signed.
 - be installed under %ProgramFiles% or %SystemRoot%\system32.
 - specify uiAccess='true' in the manifest.
 - run under SYSTEM or the currently logged-on user."

[Shane Prince]

Any updates to this? This is critical that I have alt-tab functionality.

[Shane Prince]

Thanks for this, the app works great and will do until ID adds support for alt-tab in win8.

[Shane]

Hi,

The design of Input Director is causing issues in implementing this fix. I'm still looking into it.

Shane

[will.t...@gmail.com]

Was this ever resolved?

[User]

I would like to know if this was solved too!

Doug

[Shane]

Hi,

This is still an issue. Sorry, I don't have an ETA for a solution for this, at this stage.

Regs,

Shane.

[Peter Dolkens]

Hey Shane,

  Perhaps take a look here: http://www.autohotkey.com/board/topic/70449-enable-interaction-with-administrative-programs/

  It's annoying that Windows has blocked this, but I'll keep running windows 8 in the good faith that you'll have a fix for us soon!

  Thanks again for a great product,

Pete

[Eavesdown]

Thank you for making this application known. I was almost forced to go back to Mouse Without Borders just to get past this issue on our new Windows Server 2012 machine. Hopefully Shane can get a real fix in place in the future, but VistaSwitcher is a good workaround in the meantime.

[Keith Yates]

Any updates on this, I just downloaded Input Director and it still appears to be an issue.