Re: Windows Vista keyboard/mouse macro issue

Hi,

We've been working on trying to fix this keyboard/mouse macro issue we are
having in Windows Vista.

We used the Journal Hook and Play back hook for implementing these macros.
Based on all the research we have done, it seems like this hooks are
restricted because someone could write a virus using these hooks. The
solutions we've found all require Admin user login in order for it to
work.
This is not acceptable as our product is a general business application
that
the IT personnel is not going to want their users to run the application
with
admin privileges. This is a pretty well known issue based on research
I've
done. The programming team in Microsoft must be familiar with this issue.

Note that our application is a Win32 app written in C++ and MFC. Our
macros
don't need to work across multiple applications. It only needs to work
within our own application. So, whatever API we can use, we shouldn't be
too
worried about the security concerns.

Is there a fix/reasonable workaround for this? Is there a different API
that Microsoft recommends for this?

Thanks,
Joseph