Every second you spend at your screen performing mundane, redundant tasks adds up to hours of your life wasted on avoidable repetition. These AutoHotkey scripts will reclaim that time and transform ...

AutoHotKey or AHK files are plain text file type that’s used by AutoHotkey, a free scripting tool for automating tasks in Windows. Whereas, EXE extension is used for executable files that can be ...

Ed note: We love AutoHotkey around Lifehacker HQ due to its powerful Windows tweaking skills, so we were thrilled when Reader Scott Rippey wrote in with this extremely smart script for managing your ...

Say hello to my little friend, AutoHotkey. This small–and free–utility can accomplish big things. It’s one of the best ways I know to make your PC work exactly the way you want it to. Specifically, ...

As you learned yesterday, AutoHotkey is a free macro-recording utility that allows you to automate all kinds of tasks, remap keyboard keys, and so on. By now you should have downloaded and installed ...

With a simple AutoHotkey script, you can tell your computer to launch different programs on startup with different combinations of the Caps Lock, Num Lock, and Scroll Lock functions turned on. If you ...

Unfortunately, text copied from, say, the Web to a blog tool or Word to a Web form often comes with a lot of unwanted formatting. Drives me nuts. [ Automate Common Tasks with AutoHotKey ] AutoHotkey ...

That said, I’m all about diving in headfirst. Today, I’m going to teach you about “hotstrings,” which are keystrokes inserted whenever you type a designated abbreviation. For example, you type fwiw, ...