AutoHotKey is a free, open-source utility for Windows. With it, you can: Automate almost anything by sending keystrokes and mouse clicks. You can write a mouse or keyboard macro by hand or use the macro recorder. Create hotkeys for keyboard, joystick, and mouse. Virtually any key, button, or combination can become a hotkey.

Create custom data-entry forms, user interfaces, and menu bars. Remap keys and buttons on your keyboard, joystick, and mouse. Run existing AutoIt v2 scripts and enhance them with new capabilities. Convert any script into an EXE file that can be run on computers that don’t have AutoHotkey installed. Getting started might be easier than you think. Check out the quick-start tutorial.

AutoHotKey is an astonishing tool, around which a great community is also gathered, continuously inventing new scripts and helping its users. Here are some of the ways I use AutoHotKey: to click on a tray icon by just pressing a keyboard shortcut, to minimize all windows except for the active one, to have the date and hour displayed on windows desktop, to change the size and re-position certain application windows on the fly, to open programs without using Windows’ Start Menu (by typing just a few letters of the programs’ name), to have a shortcut-key controlled pop-up menu with favorite applications and folders, to have the mouse click automatically (without pressing the mouse button)…

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