hey everyone, i am using getasynckeystat e along with a a timer in vb.net 2008 to capture certain keywords and perform an action, but the problem i am facing is the the words captured is not the same as the words being typed. Eg. If i type in the word alabama in notepad, my my program captures it as aalbama or laabmaa or something like that. it is captured exactly when the typing speed matches with the interval set in the timer. is there anyway to...

ok i figured a solution to this. I used Me.Bringtofront () before launching the external app. This solved the problem but created a new one. Now the previous application (say notepad) that i was working on is not longer active. How do i restore focus back to this window so that the user can continue what he was doing?