Clevo Hotkey app is no longer working

Hi guys,

Hope you can help me out. I just reinstalled Windows because the Hotkey application suddenly stopped working, and well, I have no bloody idea what is going on as it just stopped working yet again.

Since the Hotkey app stops working, I'm unable to change the screen brightness, turn on/off Wifi+BT, or basically, do quite a lot of basic things. I got a P150EM, and I'm running Hotkey 6.0056.

Here's the error message I get:

See the end of this message for details on invoking
just-in-time (JIT) debugging instead of this dialog box.

************** Exception Text **************
System.AccessViolationException: Attempted to read or write protected memory. This is often an indication that other memory is corrupt.
at HotKey.ControlCenter.GetBrightness()
at HotKey.ControlCenter.Form1_Load(Object sender, EventArgs e)
at System.Windows.Forms.Form.OnLoad(EventArgs e)
at System.Windows.Forms.Form.OnCreateControl()
at System.Windows.Forms.Control.CreateControl(Boolean fIgnoreVisible)
at System.Windows.Forms.Control.CreateControl()
at System.Windows.Forms.Control.WmShowWindow(Message& m)
at System.Windows.Forms.Control.WndProc(Message& m)
at System.Windows.Forms.ScrollableControl.WndProc(Message& m)
at System.Windows.Forms.ContainerControl.WndProc(Message& m)
at System.Windows.Forms.Form.WmShowWindow(Message& m)
at System.Windows.Forms.Form.WndProc(Message& m)
at System.Windows.Forms.Control.ControlNativeWindow.OnMessage(Message& m)
at System.Windows.Forms.Control.ControlNativeWindow.WndProc(Message& m)
at System.Windows.Forms.NativeWindow.Callback(IntPtr hWnd, Int32 msg, IntPtr wparam, IntPtr lparam)


************** Loaded Assemblies **************
mscorlib
Assembly Version: 2.0.0.0
Win32 Version: 2.0.50727.5420 (Win7SP1.050727-5400)
CodeBase: file:///C:/Windows/Microsoft.NET/Framework/v2.0.50727/mscorlib.dll
----------------------------------------
HotKey
Assembly Version: 1.0.0.0
Win32 Version: 1.0.0.0
CodeBase: file:///C:/Program%20Files%20(x86)/Hotkey/Hotkey.exe
----------------------------------------
System.Windows.Forms
Assembly Version: 2.0.0.0
Win32 Version: 2.0.50727.5420 (Win7SP1.050727-5400)
CodeBase: file:///C:/Windows/assembly/GAC_MSIL/System.Windows.Forms/2.0.0.0__b77a5c561934e089/System.Windows.Forms.dll
----------------------------------------
System
Assembly Version: 2.0.0.0
Win32 Version: 2.0.50727.5420 (Win7SP1.050727-5400)
CodeBase: file:///C:/Windows/assembly/GAC_MSIL/System/2.0.0.0__b77a5c561934e089/System.dll
----------------------------------------
System.Drawing
Assembly Version: 2.0.0.0
Win32 Version: 2.0.50727.5420 (Win7SP1.050727-5400)
CodeBase: file:///C:/Windows/assembly/GAC_MSIL/System.Drawing/2.0.0.0__b03f5f7f11d50a3a/System.Drawing.dll
----------------------------------------
System.ServiceProcess
Assembly Version: 2.0.0.0
Win32 Version: 2.0.50727.5420 (Win7SP1.050727-5400)
CodeBase: file:///C:/Windows/assembly/GAC_MSIL/System.ServiceProcess/2.0.0.0__b03f5f7f11d50a3a/System.ServiceProcess.dll
----------------------------------------
System.Xml
Assembly Version: 2.0.0.0
Win32 Version: 2.0.50727.5420 (Win7SP1.050727-5400)
CodeBase: file:///C:/Windows/assembly/GAC_MSIL/System.Xml/2.0.0.0__b77a5c561934e089/System.Xml.dll
----------------------------------------
System.Management
Assembly Version: 2.0.0.0
Win32 Version: 2.0.50727.5420 (Win7SP1.050727-5400)
CodeBase: file:///C:/Windows/assembly/GAC_MSIL/System.Management/2.0.0.0__b03f5f7f11d50a3a/System.Management.dll
----------------------------------------
Audiodll
Assembly Version: 1.0.0.0
Win32 Version: 1.0.0.0
CodeBase: file:///C:/Program%20Files%20(x86)/Hotkey/Audiodll.DLL
----------------------------------------

************** JIT Debugging **************
To enable just-in-time (JIT) debugging, the .config file for this
application or computer (machine.config) must have the
jitDebugging value set in the system.windows.forms section.
The application must also be compiled with debugging
enabled.

For example:

<configuration>
<system.windows.forms jitDebugging="true" />
</configuration>

When JIT debugging is enabled, any unhandled exception
will be sent to the JIT debugger registered on the computer
rather than be handled by this dialog box.

Any ideas?

 

did you try reverting back to 6.0045?

 

Yeah, I did try 6.0045, but well, I found the answer to this problem.

TeamViewer 7 Monitor Driver.

I had to roll-back to a previous version (System Restore) before that specific driver was installed, and problem solved

 

I didn't install the hotkey app, and I can do all basic functions e.g. adjusting brightness, volumes, toggle keyboard light, etc. :\

 

That's probably because Windows Update did it for you.... what the hell

 

I also have the P170EM. After about a week of having it the hotkey program stopped working. Was really bugging me! A few weeks later I got a second hard drive and reinstalled my computer into a raid 0. I was also hoping a clean reinstall would fix the hot keys. and it did! for a week.... I couldn't figure it out. The debugging I did made it sound like .NET issues. I had to install older versions of .Net for my some of programs and thought one of those was the problem. Still couldn't figure it out for the longest time.

2 months later. Here this post here... after reading it I went into my Team viewer settings, uninstalled the monitor driver. Tada! The hotkey program started working again (after I started the program again, I've kept a shortcut on my desktop. It would run just long enough for me to turn the keyboard backlight on) without a computer reboot. Darn program conflict. The monitor driver is a minor thing at least.

But yay! Hotkeys again!

and indeed. Windows has some basic hotkey functionality it will do automatically if a 3rd party program isn't running that overrides it. Most I got it to do was volume controls and put the computer to sleep. Which is actually kind of annoying the sleep hotkey is inbetween the Mute and Reduce volume hotkeys... Eh. I'll deal with it. The laptop is boss

 

If you have trouble with the sleep button just tell windows to do nothing when it's pressed (in power options)

 

Just wanted to say thanks for posting this. Saved me the trouble of re-installing the operating system!