In the file Properties, click the Change button next to the 'Opens with' option.

ahk file in explorer and click Properties.

Create a plain text file and give it the.

When choosing the destination folder, pick any correct storedevice external or not.

Find the Portable section, choose from UNICODE 32, 64 or ANSI and downloaded.

Keep going until you see an Install button.

It has support for non-English letters and numbers (characters). In short, you would probably want to choose UNICODE.

During installation of AutoHotkey, you will be asked to choose from UNICODE or ANSI.

Click Download, once downloaded run the executable.

Go get some reward snacks then return to reading the rest of this tutorial.

Hip Hip Hooray! Your first script is done.

Open notepad or (anything you can type in) and press Ctrl and J.

Double-Click the file/icon in the desktop to run it.

This will prevent many issues when you start having a lot of stuff in your scripts. It literally STOPS code from going any further, to the lines below. SEND is the command, anything after the comma (,) will be typed. Send, My First Script is how you SEND keystrokes.

Anything to the left of :: are the keys you need to press. Until then, here's an explanation of the above code. Here is a very basic script containing a Hotkey which types text using the Send command when the hotkey is pressed. For a list of all built-in commands, function and variables, see section 5. So now that you have created a script, we need to add stuff into the file.

A window should have popped up, probably Notepad.

Find the newly created file on your desktop and Right-Click it.

Click 'AutoHotkey Script' inside the 'New' menu.

AutoHotkey is not magic, we all wish it was, but it is not. Once you have AutoHotkey installed, you will probably want it to do stuff. Prints 'Hello, World' to Standard Output (stdout). Show a 'Hello World!' message in the traybar edit. Gui, Show, NoActivate, Title of Window NoActivate avoids deactivating the currently active window. (Stable and receives updates regularly) VersionĪutoHotkey 2.0-a* (Still in alpha stage) VersionĪchieve an effect similar to SplashTextOn Gui, +AlwaysOnTop +Disabled -SysMenu +Owner +Owner avoids a taskbar button. (Development was discontinued in 2011 Latest stable: 2009) VersionĪutoHotkey 1.1.* - previously known as AutoHotkey_L. AutoHotkey 1.0.* - also retroactively known as AutoHotkey Basic, Classic, Vanilla, etc.

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