I see that some of our users can be difficult, let me put in my two cents. All 64-bit versions of Windows from Vista onward include a technology that prevents kernel hooks. If a kernel hook is somehow successfully installed, the machine will blue screen. It's called Kernel Patch Protection - Wikipedia[^] Therefore, I don't think the scenario that you suspect is what's actually going on. The difficult we do right away... ...the impossible takes slightly longer.