AutoHotkey is an application that lets you customize your keyboard, joystick, and mouse. AutoHotkey is an open source automation and hotkey utility that is backward compatible with AutoIt. The software includes a quick-start tutorial, an automatic script writer that records and plays back your keystrokes and mouse clicks, and a comprehensive help file. AutoHotkey can remap keys and buttons, and make almost any key, joystick button, mouse button, or combination into a hotkey. Also the program allows you to 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; hide/close/resize any window; use a joystick as a mouse; retrieve and change the clipboard’s contents; display dialog boxes, tooltips, balloon tips, and popup menus; and create your own stand-alone EXE files that can be run on any computer.

AutoHotkey is definitely one of those very few open source applications that is difficult to live out of your collections. Some of its key features include the following; convert any script to an exe file that can be run on computers that don’t have AutoHotkey installed, automate virtually anything by simply sending keystrokes and mouse clicks, respond to signals from hand-held remote controls via the WinLIRC client script, and many more.

Want to check it out? Visit AutohotKey.

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