are you running 8 or 8.1?

as far as i can tell i am running 8 (not 8.1) and i am running HotKeyNet without any problems (except for my noobish scripting ).

can we assume you have been launching HKN with admin priviliges by right clicking the .exe?

also a mistake i made right after downloading it was trying to launch hotkeynet_km.exe rather than hotkeynet.exe