Why is AHK now banned?

[𝓜𝓕𝓔𝓾𝓷𝓸𝓼]

Windows is garbage (but I refuse to use any other OS) and I cannot disable windows hotkeys without disabling all of them. Because of this, I cannot press and hold CTRL and then W, because CTRL + W is a win hotkey.

Now I use AHK to get around this by translating CTRL + W to just "W", but now AHK is banned when launching the game (btw which no other game even does this that I have ever played), what am I even suppose to do. I've tried googling how to disable the CTRL + W hotkey, but there's literally no way to do it. Any advice?

[Balsover]

Originally posted by ρνтναıη:

Windows is garbage (but I refuse to use any other OS) and I cannot disable windows hotkeys without disabling all of them. Because of this, I cannot press and hold CTRL and then W, because CTRL + W is a win hotkey.

Now I use AHK to get around this by translating CTRL + W to just "W", but now AHK is banned when launching the game (btw which no other game even does this that I have ever played), what am I even suppose to do. I've tried googling how to disable the CTRL + W hotkey, but there's literally no way to do it. Any advice?

Are you confusing the CTRL key for the Windows key? CTRL + W doesn't do anything.

[Mr.Dynamite]

never once seen this affect any game i've played, maybe you have sticky keys or the other variants enabled. first thing that gets disabled on a fresh install

[drama]

gameban on profile + ctrl w does not hinder gameplay at all its doing literally nothing.

[𝓜𝓕𝓔𝓾𝓷𝓸𝓼]

Originally posted by Balsover:

Originally posted by ρνтναıη:

Windows is garbage (but I refuse to use any other OS) and I cannot disable windows hotkeys without disabling all of them. Because of this, I cannot press and hold CTRL and then W, because CTRL + W is a win hotkey.

Now I use AHK to get around this by translating CTRL + W to just "W", but now AHK is banned when launching the game (btw which no other game even does this that I have ever played), what am I even suppose to do. I've tried googling how to disable the CTRL + W hotkey, but there's literally no way to do it. Any advice?

Are you confusing the CTRL key for the Windows key? CTRL + W doesn't do anything.

CTRL + W is a windows hotkey, look it up. My last computer never had this issue in games where I couldn't hold CTRL first and then W. But for some reason my new PC (still Win10 Pro) isn't allowing this. I don't know if it's a setting somewhere in windows that detects if you're playing a game or not, but it's been frustrating because there's virtually no solution on google.

[_Atr4Mør5]

Originally posted by ρνтναıη:

Windows is garbage (but I refuse to use any other OS) and I cannot disable windows hotkeys without disabling all of them. Because of this, I cannot press and hold CTRL and then W, because CTRL + W is a win hotkey.

Now I use AHK to get around this by translating CTRL + W to just "W", but now AHK is banned when launching the game (btw which no other game even does this that I have ever played), what am I even suppose to do. I've tried googling how to disable the CTRL + W hotkey, but there's literally no way to do it. Any advice?

What? What's the problem with Ctrl+W?

[_Atr4Mør5]

Originally posted by ρνтναıη:

Originally posted by Balsover:

Are you confusing the CTRL key for the Windows key? CTRL + W doesn't do anything.

CTRL + W is a windows hotkey, look it up. My last computer never had this issue in games where I couldn't hold CTRL first and then W. But for some reason my new PC (still Win10 Pro) isn't allowing this. I don't know if it's a setting somewhere in windows that detects if you're playing a game or not, but it's been frustrating because there's virtually no solution on google.

Your problem. AHK don't needed. You probably f*ked up something.

[𝓜𝓕𝓔𝓾𝓷𝓸𝓼]

Originally posted by Mr.Dynamite:

never once seen this affect any game i've played, maybe you have sticky keys or the other variants enabled. first thing that gets disabled on a fresh install

See, once again I've never had this issue before, but now I do and once again, there's zero solutions on google whatsoever lol. But sticky keys, etc, all disabled already. I even tried the regedit stuff too, nothings worked so far.

[𝓜𝓕𝓔𝓾𝓷𝓸𝓼]

Originally posted by _Atr4Mør5:

Originally posted by ρνтναıη:

CTRL + W is a windows hotkey, look it up. My last computer never had this issue in games where I couldn't hold CTRL first and then W. But for some reason my new PC (still Win10 Pro) isn't allowing this. I don't know if it's a setting somewhere in windows that detects if you're playing a game or not, but it's been frustrating because there's virtually no solution on google.

Your problem. AHK don't needed. You probably f*ked up something.

Uh, no, it's a windows skill issue. Problem is, I just don't know if it's a setting somewhere in Windows that needs to be adjusted or not. If you sincerely think it's a me issue, then I implore you to do a fresh windows 10 pro install on the latest version and give me an update on your findings brother.

[Netsa]

Looking it up, Ctrl+W is a combo for closing tabs and windows. Works in Firefox at least.
Testing to see if it does anything in-game, I yielded no odd results. I'm running Windows 10 Home.

I don't use AHK but I was able to press Ctrl+W all I wanted without anything weird happening (meaning I was able to crouch and then crouch-walk forward just fine). Tried it with both Toggle and Hold crouch.

I don't think disabling Ctrl+W is the problem since, as others have mentioned, using Ctrl to crouch is fairly common in first-person video games and we have never had to disable that hotkey before. Ever. I think you might just be Googling the wrong problem, since no part of your issue makes any sense. You shouldn't need to do any regedit, either, since, again, this button combo just simply works with no issues for everyone else.

I think your problem might be elsewhere on your computer, or with some other program you have open. AHK was a hacky band-aid fix for something that shouldn't have been an issue in the first place, and not because of Microsoft screwing up something (as much as I want to blame Microsoft).

[_Atr4Mør5]

Originally posted by ρνтναıη:

Originally posted by _Atr4Mør5:

Your problem. AHK don't needed. You probably f*ked up something.

Uh, no, it's a windows skill issue. Problem is, I just don't know if it's a setting somewhere in Windows that needs to be adjusted or not. If you sincerely think it's a me issue, then I implore you to do a fresh windows 10 pro install on the latest version and give me an update on your findings brother.

I want to give you a little tip.
Install one of stable and fresh version of Windows, but not last.
Turn off all updates manually via gpedit or use OOSU utility.
Never update your windows. And never let it update in auto mode.
Never.
That's it.

Im personally using 21H2 19044.1889 and I don't have any issues with games. Neither CS2 where is ppl crying that the game freezing/stuttering/crashing nor Finals nor Cyberpunk 2077 nor anything else. I played in TLOU 1 at release w/o problems when ppl was crying how bad console-port it was. Everything just works. Why and for should I update Windows if Microsoft doesn't have QA department for their updates? They are literally said that their QA are USERS. You wanna be a lab-rat? I don't.

So, even if it's not your misstake and something works not as you want to, I mean MS really could broke something after their updates, why you let them uploading updates on your PC? For what?

[𝓜𝓕𝓔𝓾𝓷𝓸𝓼]

Originally posted by Netsa:

Looking it up, Ctrl+W is a combo for closing tabs and windows. Works in Firefox at least.
Testing to see if it does anything in-game, I yielded no odd results. I'm running Windows 10 Home.

I don't use AHK but I was able to press Ctrl+W all I wanted without anything weird happening (meaning I was able to crouch and then crouch-walk forward just fine). Tried it with both Toggle and Hold crouch.

I don't think disabling Ctrl+W is the problem since, as others have mentioned, using Ctrl to crouch is fairly common in first-person video games and we have never had to disable that hotkey before. Ever. I think you might just be Googling the wrong problem, since no part of your issue makes any sense. You shouldn't need to do any regedit, either, since, again, this button combo just simply works with no issues for everyone else.

I think your problem might be elsewhere on your computer, or with some other program you have open. AHK was a hacky band-aid fix for something that shouldn't have been an issue in the first place, and not because of Microsoft screwing up something (as much as I want to blame Microsoft).

CTRL + W does nothing for me in Firefox, but idc about that since I've never needed that hotkey. Using regedit is one of the many methods to disabling windows hotkeys, so yes it does make sense. But googling it, there is posts about people having this issue, so I'm not the only one, at least I've never been the only one. AHK was a hacky band-aid fix, but it did work. But otherwise, I truly have no idea what program could even be causing this issue. It's not like I ever tried CTRL + W prior to setting up all of the stuff I normally use. There's no major difference to my last PC setup software wise versus now, so I gotta figure it out somehow. The problem is there's nothing happening when I press CTRL + W, so I have no idea where to start.

[Netsa]

Originally posted by ρνтναıη:

CTRL + W does nothing for me in Firefox, but idc about that since I've never needed that hotkey. Using regedit is one of the many methods to disabling windows hotkeys, so yes it does make sense. But googling it, there is posts about people having this issue, so I'm not the only one, at least I've never been the only one. AHK was a hacky band-aid fix, but it did work. But otherwise, I truly have no idea what program could even be causing this issue. It's not like I ever tried CTRL + W prior to setting up all of the stuff I normally use. There's no major difference to my last PC setup software wise versus now, so I gotta figure it out somehow. The problem is there's nothing happening when I press CTRL + W, so I have no idea where to start.

If Ctrl+W isn't activating its intended functionality but is instead only messing with you in-game, it definitely sounds like there's some other root problem you really need to fix. No, it does not make sense to disable the hotkey in regedit, you need to find what's really going on or do a clean install. If you're in the habit of doing a lot of registry edits, that alone could be part of the issue.

I Googled the Ctrl+W thing with respect to video games and the only result I found related to this problem recommended exactly what you did, using AHK to disable it... and with no one questioning why it was even behaving like that in the first place. Did that not sound weird??? Hopefully that's not what you followed, because wtf.

The problem with hacky solutions like that is that even though they work in the short term, they may cause issues in the long term, like for example one of your games not allowing AHK (this isn't the first game to ban AHK, either, for good reason).

Check your background and start-up processes to see what's running. Heck, it could even be your keyboard. Did you already check Sticky Keys, Toggle Keys, AND Filter Keys?

Edit:
Don't discount temporarily swapping in another keyboard to see if it does the same thing.

[ХлебныйБу♿[Newbie]]

What do you need to do?
Solve the problem without using third-party programs that are needed to write macros and cheats.
If you don't have these keys working at the same time, buy a new keyboard, I faced similar problems. (win+shift+s and many others did not work).
It's not about Windows, it's about your greed or bad keyboard handling.

By the way, ctrl+w in windows doesn't do anything, and if it did, it wouldn't interfere with the game in any way.

[𝓜𝓕𝓔𝓾𝓷𝓸𝓼]

Okay so I ran down some more google search results... Turns out it's cause Samsung Magician (for updating my samsung SSDs firmware, looking at their temps, general health, etc) breaks CTRL + W. Turns out it wasn't a Windows moment for once.

[Netsa]

Lol, sometimes it's the most random ♥♥♥♥ I swear. Glad you found the solution!