Hello! So I am new to multiboxing and these forums, so I apologize if I come off as being really noob-ish. I am currently interested in trying out multiboxing with only two separate accounts on the same computer. I am able to run WoW fluently in two separate windows and have just finished setting myself up with a trial account that I created using the recruit-a-friend option. If I feel like I enjoy multiboxing, then I'm considering buying a month or two of WoW subscription time and the first game bundle that includes the original WoW game as well as BC.

I've been reading various guides online almost all day now and I am still very, very confused. I have everything set up fine except for one thing: I can't for the life of me figure out how to use hotkeys. I've been using HotKeyNet, just because it's free and I had read that it was one of the suggested clients to use, and I've used 3 different pre-made configuration files that I've found online and I just can't figure out how to use the hotkeys at all.

What I want is incredibly simple: I'm going to be leveling up a Paladin to be my party leader, and a mage to support my paladin with DPS and Food/Drink and whatnot. My problem is that I don't want to keep on having to alt+tab into the window that I'm playing my Mage on, because that's just a huge pain in the butt. I thought that the hotkeys were used to control different windows of WoW while you're just using a different one. In essence, all that I want to be able to do is control my mage from my Paladin's WoW window. Is that possible at all?

What I did was find a pre-configured script for HotKeyNet that utilized the F1-F12 keys for three separate instances of WoW. I edited this, or so I thought, so that the hotkeys programmed to the F1-F12 keys were only being sent to the WoW2 window, which was the one that my mage was using. I then created a macro in-game for my mage only to assist my paladin and cast a fireball at whatever he was targeting. I went into the Key Bindings menu inside my mage's instance of WoW and assigned his first action bar skill slot to be used when I press F1, and then I put the newly created macro in the first action bar button.

I alt+tabbed back into WoW1, which was where my paladin was, and targeted the closest mob I could find and began auto-attacking it. I pressed the Caps Lock button, which was what I wrote in my script to enable hotkeys in HotKeyNet, and then I immediately pressed F1 on my keyboard--and nothing happened. I alt+tabbed into WoW2 to make sure that there wasn't an error message of any sort, but nothing had happened at all. When I alt+tabbed back into WoW1, I saw that my Paladin was getting attacked and not attacking back because he had just selected himself, which is the default key binding for F1 on my version of WoW.

So my question is, how the heck do I tell HotKeyNet to ONLY use WoW2 when I hit the F1 key on my keyboard, and what do I have to do both in and out of game to get my mage to use the macro that I created without having to alt+tab or minimize out of my WoW1 window?

Thank you!