What can cause Windows to unhook a low level (global) keyboard hook?

Question

We have some global keyboard hooks installed via SetWindowsHookEx with WH_KEYBOARD_LL that appear to randomly get unhooked by Windows.

We

Answer 1

I'm using the following project from: http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/7294/Processing-Global-Mouse-and-Keyboard-Hooks-in-C to perform tasks when a certain key has been pressed.

I noticed that after i performed a task with a hotkey it stopped listening for new keypresses, i then changed the KeyboardHookListener to static and it seemed to solve my problem. I've no idea why this solved my problem, so feel free to comment on this!

My hotkey class:

 class Hotkey
{
    private static KeyboardHookListener _keyboardHookListener;

    public void Start()
    {
        _keyboardHookListener = new KeyboardHookListener(new GlobalHooker()) { Enabled = true };
        _keyboardHookListener.KeyDown += KeyboardListener_OnkeyPress;
    }

    private void KeyboardListener_OnkeyPress(object sender, KeyEventArgs e)
    {
        // Let's backup all projects
        if (e.KeyCode == Keys.F1)
        {
            // Initialize files
            var files = new Files();

            // Backup all projects
            files.BackupAllProjects();
        }
        // Quick backup - one project
        else if (e.KeyCode == Keys.F2)
        {
            var quickBackupForm = new QuickBackup();
            quickBackupForm.Show();
        }
    }
}