what exactly are you trying to do? why do you need autohotkey if you can already do it with mousekeys? if you can figure out exactly what you want to use autohotkey for as opposed to mousekeys, then we can figure out if it's legal or not Op already said they were using a condensed laptop, so its a real pain to use mouse keys. If you are really unsure and dont want to risk getting banned, they do make number pads that are external just like a mouse. Not sure how hard they are to find are what the cost might be, but they plug in just a mouse and should work for mouse keys.