Customize your keyboard, joystick, and mouse with an open source scripting language that is backward compatible with AutoIt v2. It includes a quick-start tutorial, an automatic script writer (macro recorder) that records your keystrokes and mouse clicks, and a comprehensive help file.

In addition to its automation features described below, AutoHotkey excels at hotkeys, able to make almost *any* mouse/joystick button, keyboard key, or combination into a hotkey. It can also individually disable or override Windows´ own shortcut keys, such as Win+E and Win+R. It may also help alleviate RSI; for example, it can create substitutes for Alt-Tab using keys, mouse wheel, or buttons.

MAJOR AUTOMATION FEATURES

• Define abbreviations that expand as you type them (auto-replace).
• Create custom GUI windows and menu bars.
• Retrieve or change the volume, mute, and other settings of any soundcard.
• Remap keys and mouse/joystick buttons.
• Send keystrokes and mouse clicks to any window (without needing to activate it).
• Launch programs, shortcuts, URLs, and documents.
• Activate, hide, close, or resize any window.
• Make a window transparent and/or always-on-top.
• Change the priority of a process or close it.
• Create custom tray icon menus and popup menus.
• Use a joystick as a mouse.
• Monitor your system (e.g. close unwanted windows the moment they appear).
• Automate game actions by detecting pixel colors.
• Retrieve and change the clipboard´s contents, even if it contains files copied from the Explorer.
• Perform any operation upon a set of files and folders that match a wildcard pattern.
• Read, write, and parse text files more easily than in most other languages.
• Work with the registry and INI files using the included interface commands.
• Display simple tooltips and balloon tips.
• Display dialog boxes to interact with the user.
• Convert any script into an EXE that can be run on any computer.