AutoHotkey is a free and open-source tool for all your automation needs on Windows. It’s the closest thing to Automator, which is a personal automation tool available on the Mac. AutoHotkey relies on ...

This is a beginner’s guide to creating AutoHotkey scripts. AutoHotkey is a program that allows you to create a key combination for a task. You can call them macros or mini-programs. The scripts or ...

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, ...

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 ...

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, ...