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Is there any way to influence which application on Windows consumes keystrokes first?

My problem is that I have two applications running in background. The application that is not that important eats a keystroke, so the second application does nothing in the end.

Is there any way to affect this behavior?

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Which keystrokes and which applications are you talking about? I know you're asking a general question, but maybe there's an easy solution for your special case. – slhck Jun 1 '11 at 11:11
Autohotkey - I want every keystroke to be handled by ahk before any other application gets the chance. – uther Jun 1 '11 at 11:31
You should edit your question to reflect that! – slhck Jun 1 '11 at 11:35
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Seems like superuser.com/questions/291018/… to me... – soandos Jun 1 '11 at 12:02
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What is your OS?

You can use autohotkey to do this with XP and probably vista and 7:

Check out http://www.autohotkey.com/

And

http://www.autohotkey.com/forum/topic2270.html

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Actually, autohotkey is that program I want to intercept all my keystrokes first, the problem is that second program intercepts them before that. – uther Jun 1 '11 at 11:30
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