Can i be banned for disabling ALT+TAB with AHK?

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I hear conflicting reports of people being banned for using AutoHotKey in different games, probably for worse things than disabling alt+tab but still…

Wanting to bind alt to the third mouse button on my G600 but don’t want to accidentally tab out when switching targets.

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looking at how Autohotkey works you may get away with using it as it doesn’t inject or anything like that.

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3 button specc needs other keybinds than 1 2 and 3? okay :stuck_out_tongue:

All jokes aside: think you can even remap them in Windows or even with a different 3rd party piece of software you can make sure they get disabled when in X game or things like that.

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I disabled Caps Lock, will I be banned?

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AHK doesn’t inject anything into WoW, alt tab is a windows function so I’d be surprised if Blizz could even monitor it and even more surprised if they banned anyone for changing a 2 button command into a 1 button command.

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I did it with a registry setting.

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Keyboard Layout]
"Scancode Map"=hex:00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,02,00,00,00,00,00,3a,00,00,00,00,00

Still works in Windows 10

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Thanks for the replies bois, appreciated.

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I’ve used AHK for many years to switch to programs/bring up their windows quickly (e.g. hotkeys for the browser, Discord, my code editor, etc), and I’ve not been banned for it. AHK doesn’t interact with WoW in any way, the way I use it.

I assigned the right ALT key function to my capslock key since that makes special characters on the right side of the keyboard more accessible when touch-typing. I use one of Microsoft’s old tools for that, explained here: https://www.techrepublic.com/article/how-to-remap-the-caps-lock-key-and-avoid-future-frustration/

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Warden monitors your processes, last time i read about it. They have very strict double check policy to avoid false-negatives though.

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Or you get a keyboard that can;

https://i.imgur.com/0xfjT2P.png
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You’re asking if you disable a keybind, will you be banned for it?

No, they won’t ban you.

Just use Capslock to which targets.

This might take some getting accustomed to but you can try my binding setup

TAB - to target enemy players
CAPS - to jump
SPACEBAR - to target npc

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