On screen numeric touch keyboard – AutoHotKey

Many new small 12” or 14” laptops come with a touch screen in combination with a small keyboard, missing the numeric input keys. When using azerty keyboards, the numeric keys need to hold shift key, which resulted in some annoyance when often needing to enter Windows credentials with Windows Hello PIN. Off course, Windows 10 allows you to open an on screen keyboard (OSK) and even has a nice keyboard shortcut for it: Win + Ctrl + O, but I preferred to use a small numeric touchscreen keypad entry so I created one using AutoHotKey.

The AHK script can easily be converted into and .exe executable using Ahk2Exe that can be added into the Windows start menu to launch at Windows startup: just add a shortcut to this .exe into folder “%appdata%\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Startup”.

The script will monitor all windows and whenever a windows having the text “Windows Security “ would pop up, it will activate the on screen numeric keyboard on top and allow you to easily enter the numbers, press Enter or press backspace (<).