I recently received a e-mail from a person asking if I knew of any program that could count how many times per day a certain key on the keyboard was pressed. In her case she wanted to know how many times per day she pressed the F9 key. I told her I didn't know of one off-hand but that I could make one in Visual Basic in about 15 minutes. And so I did, and here is the result. I call it "Key Counter" and I decided to release it publically in case anyone else wants it or can learn something from it.
As you can see from the screenshot below it's a very simple and small program. You simply tell it what key you want to watch (F9 is the default), then you minimize it and go about your work, then when you come back to it it will tell you how many times you pressed that key. There's also a "reset" button you can click to reset the count back to 0. This program will not "record" your keystrokes in any way, it will simply count them. You can download both the Visual Basic source code and the program below to see for yourself.
In the future I may make another program that counts all keystrokes made, not just those from an individual key if there's enough interest.
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