Windows 10 MceRemote handling keypresses

[Mordred]

My windows 10 install got updated to the Creators Edition yesterday, and ever since I've been having issues with my EventGhost setup.

Windows seems to be handling the MceRemote events (particularly MceRemote.Mce.Play) when EventGhost used to be the only one handling those. In EventGhost disabled all the default events that Windows was now handling, but I have an issue with the .Mce.Play event in foobar, because it starts the track over from the beginning instead of pausing it.

How do I prevent Windows from handling the MceRemote events? I swear I've had to do this years ago, but I can't figure it out right now.

[kgschlosser]

run EG as administrator, go into the MCE remote plugin configuration and uninstall the alternate MCE IR service. save and close EG. then reboot the computer. once the computer has
restarted. run EG as administrator again and go into the MCE remote plugin configuration and install the alternate MCE IR service.

what has happened is there are several registry keys that get removed when the alternate MCE IR sercie gets installed. when you did the windows update it readded those keys. so we uninstall the service and reinstall it and that should once again remove them.

[Mordred]

That makes perfect sense. Unfortunately, those steps didn't work for me.

I ran through them multiple times now... running EG as administrator. Uninstalling, rebooting, running EG as administrator, reinstalling. Still getting Windows handling the events as well as EG. I should also point out, I'm on the latest version of EG, and got the latest version of the MceRemote_Vista driver the site tonight.

Can you let me know what registry entries need to be removed so that I can just do it manually? Or at least to check and see if they weren't removed properly?

[kgschlosser]

let me go dig through the code and see what they are

[kgschlosser]

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\HidIr\Remotes\745a17a0-74d3-11d0-b6fe-00a0c90f57da\CodeSetNum0
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\HidIr\Remotes\745a17a0-74d3-11d0-b6fe-00a0c90f57da\CodeSetNum1
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\HidIr\Remotes\745a17a0-74d3-11d0-b6fe-00a0c90f57da\CodeSetNum2
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\HidIr\Remotes\745a17a0-74d3-11d0-b6fe-00a0c90f57da\CodeSetNum3

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\HidIr\Remotes\745a17a0-74d3-11d0-b6fe-00a0c90f57db\CodeSetNum0
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\HidIr\Remotes\745a17a0-74d3-11d0-b6fe-00a0c90f57db\CodeSetNum1
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\HidIr\Remotes\745a17a0-74d3-11d0-b6fe-00a0c90f57db\CodeSetNum2
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\HidIr\Remotes\745a17a0-74d3-11d0-b6fe-00a0c90f57db\CodeSetNum3


what I would do is to dump those reg entries to a file in the event it doesn't work then you simply have to double click the file and they will get reinstalled.

but you need to delete those if they exist

[kgschlosser]

if you can do me a favor before you delete the keys.

uninstall the alternate mce ir service and reboot.

go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\HidIr in your registry and right click the folder on the left and click export. I would tell you to attach the file but attachments at the present time are broken. so you will have to open the file in a text editor and copy and paste the information into the forum.

please put [ code ] before and [ /code ] after the data you text without the spaces.

then install the service and reboot., then go back in and do the same process again. I want to have a look see at what is going on.

[Mordred]

Thanks man, turns out, before I could do any of that, I got everything working. I think what did it was uninstalling the service, rebooting, installing the service, and then rebooting again.

This was literally the 4th time I'd gone through the process, but it was the first time I had rebooted after re-installing. (In the process I also cleaned up some other registry entries and fixed some things throwing errors in the event log, so it's possible but pretty unlikely that clearing up one of those also fixed whatever was preventing this from working) Tomorrow if I get a chance I'll go through and check for those registry entries, but for tonight I'm just going to be happy I've got it working.

Thanks for your help!

[kgschlosser]

that was my mistake I know you have to reboot after you install the service. i didn't type it in.