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I need a Windows program which can display all keys pressed on a keyboard, basically an equivalent of the xev(1) program for X11, in order to troubleshoot a problem I have which I'm not sure is hardware related or not. Googling for "keyboard logging" gives a whole bunch of various programs, all geared towards secretly figuring out if your spouse is doing something he or she shouldn't be doing, and several of them have warnings about "this program has been reported to be malicious".

Can anyone recommend a good keyboard event logger, in the spirit of "xev"?

womble
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JesperE
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There's a utility in the windows SDK, called spy++ that can do this.

To log all keyboard messages make sure you enable all windows in the system checkbox, and filter for Keyboard message types.

chickeninabiscuit
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The keyboard debugger at

https://codepen.io/QDeltaE/pen/PjXWZr

Tracks full keyboard state

Alexander T
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My usual quick solution for this is keylook.exe<1>.

<1> ftp://ftp.charlespetzold.com/ProgWin95/CHAP05/

michaeljt
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I've used PassMark KeyboardTest before and it was just what I needed. It shows what keys are being pressed on the keyboard.

It's not exactly free, but there's a free 30-day trial download available. Of course, if you only need it once you can probably get away with the evaluation version.

lc.
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You can try keycode.info

It is the only online keyboard tester which I found that respects location of modifier keys, i.e. you can see the difference between left Alt and right Alt for example. However, it only shows last event, but has no logging area. Probably you can contribute to author's project.

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I'm note sure the level of logging you want but could Keyboard Jedi be a solution?

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