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- Price: Free
- Operating system: Windows 95, Windows Me, Windows NT, Windows XP, Windows 2000, Windows 98
- Date added: July 06, 2006
- Total Downloads: 135,113
- Downloads last week: 636
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- CNET editors' rating: stars
- Average user rating: stars out of 143 votes
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CNET editors' review
Reviewed by: CNET Staff
This freeware program lets power users perform complex operations by pressing a few keys. A quick glance shows that the AutoHotkey script language offers a wide range of opportunities.
First, it can run programs, manipulate program windows, and send keystrokes or mouse clicks. Multimedia or Internet keyboards are supported, and you can plug in nonstandard devices. It can also handle files and folders. For instance, it can check whether there is enough free disk space, then delete all temporary files if there isn't. Most remarkably, you can pack your scripts into EXE files that will run on any PC, even without AutoHotkey installed.
AutoHotKey hogs a grand total of only 1MB of memory when running in the background. However, the user interface is minimal, so you will have to read the manual carefully and write scripts yourself. The program works great as a script-running engine, but we would like to see more tools in the interface, such as a script library and an integrated scripting environment. AutoHotkey should appeal to advanced users with some command of scripting and a dislike for removing their fingers from the keyboard.
Publisher's description
From AutoHotkey :This open-source utility can automate almost anything by sending keystrokes and mouse clicks. You can write macros by hand or use the macro recorder. You can also create hotkeys for keyboard, mouse, joystick, and handheld remote controls. Virtually any key, button, or combination can become a hotkey. Similarly, you can define abbreviations that expand as you type them. For example, typing btw can automatically produce by the way. Finally, you can create custom data entry forms, user interfaces, and menu bars.
Other features: change soundcard settings (like volume or mute); use a joystick or keyboard as a mouse; remap keys; launch programs/documents; make any window transparent, always-on-top, or alter its shape; manipulate the clipboard; customize the tray menu's icon and menu items; run existing AutoIt v2 scripts; and convert any script into an EXE file that can be run on any computer. Version 1.0.44.07 may include unspecified updates, enhancements, or bug fixes.
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5 out of 7 people found this review helpful
Version: AutoHotkey 1.0.44.07
Pros: Whereas any scripting language will take some time to learn, this one is relatively simple and effective. I have saved MANY hours of time and attention using this tool to automate logging into online accounts, reformatting a long list in a spreadsheet, typing in addresses with a quick "hotkey" and so forth.
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4 out of 5 people found this review helpful
Version: AutoHotkey 1.0.44.07
"Way cool! =Better= than anything that costs money"
Pros: If you're a geek, this is the keyboard macro program you WANT. It has far more options, features, and abilities than I ever dreamed was possible in a macro program. So far, I have been able to do ANYTHING I could think of. It never even occured to me that might want to build a complete GUI from within a keyboard macro, nor load and execute arbitrary functions in system DLLs, but now there it is.
Cons: There's a mixture of "old" and "new" syntax styles that gets confusing. Would have been better to have a global mode for old vs. new.
And in the "new" incarnation, should have just made =all= the syntax look like a regular programming language.
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2 out of 5 people found this review helpful
Version: AutoHotkey 1.0.44.07
Pros: window handling, hotstrings
Cons: SYTAX is pain, snatched OLD AutoIt code, AutoIt has Microsoft developpers and better support
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