Why did windows change the elevation requirements of my AutoHotKey script, and how can I prevent such in the future?
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Published on 2014-06-10T01:35:18Z
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I was working on an AutoHotKey (AHK) script to create prefab mouse movements for a very simple model viewer. I worked on it for a good hour. I zipped the script, posted it to a forum, and thought "oh hey, I should add bla bla bla to the script".
When I returned to the program, the AHK script would not work. I could see the mouse movements working in other programs (notepad, chrome, etc), but not where I had been working the previous hour.
After several hours of throwing darts at the troubleshooting wall, I discovered that the fix was to set the AHK.exe to Run as Administrator.
The question here are multiple
- Why did Windows 7, in all it's wisdom, suddenly decide that elevation was necessary in the middle of usage?
- Can these permission requirements somehow be reverted by, say, removing a key from the registry or something?
- How can this kind of Windows behaviour be avoided in the future?
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