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prisoner107
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Post by prisoner107 » Oct 16th, ’19, 17:22

Hello, Is there any way to make FastKeys work with Windows 10 UAC popup? I have to use a separate Admin Account for almost all my tasks and I constantly get a UAC screen where the background screen is disabled and it only shows the UAC prompt. At this point, FastKeys does not respond. Is there any way around this?
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Tom
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Post by Tom » Oct 18th, ’19, 11:21

Try running FastKeys as administrator. Alternatively, enable Run as Administrator option in Preferences/General.
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Post by prisoner107 » Oct 18th, ’19, 15:09

I always run FastKeys as an Administrator and enable Run as Administrator option in Preferences/General has always been set.
But yet, when the UAC prompt comes up and I type in my Text Expand keywords "wp" for this example it should type in my credentials. But instead, it only types in those letters, its as if the FastKeys program is disabled at this point. Every other time it works without issues, except when a UAC prompt comes up. I'm on v4.22 Standard Edition.
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Post by prisoner107 » Oct 22nd, ’19, 15:10

Hello, am I the only user who has reported this issue, or is this a known problem?
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Post by Tom » Oct 22nd, ’19, 20:43

I searched about it a bit more and it looks like UAC prompts are elevated by Windows for security reasons. Could you use clipboard instead?
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Post by prisoner107 » Oct 22nd, ’19, 20:59

That would be defeating the purpose of this application, but in theory, yes I can. I take it there is no way around it.
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