Hookmanager ... How to run as a windows service

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Processing Global Mouse and Keyboard Hooks in C#

(Processing Global Mouse and Keyboard Hooks in C#[^])

... I need to run the HookManager in a windows service, but the events will not firing ... any ideas?

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It runs perfect in a WinForm-Application

Posted 4-Mar-19 8:07am

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Updated 4-Mar-19 8:27am

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F-ES Sitecore · Answer 1 · 2019-03-04T08:27:00

You won't get this working as services have their own separate desktop\user session from the logged in user so your service code can't access anything on the interactive desktop such as mouse and keyboard events. It works fine from your application as your application is running as your interactive user in the same user session.