If you want to automate things on your PC, AutoHotKey is one of the best ways to do it. It's a powerful tool that can simulate inputs on your PC, and the best thing about it is that it's free. It can ...

AutoHotkey (AHK) is a free and simple yet powerful Windows scripting language. It doesn’t get a lot of press these days, but Windows geeks used to love writing and swapping AHK scripts. You can learn ...

We recently featured a way to launch applications and perform actions on another computer with Dropbox and AutoHotkey, but it was a bit complicated. Here's an updated version, that just requires a ...

You’ve gotten the hang of email filters or keyboard shortcuts. You’re ready to start getting into some more advanced productivity hacks, but jumping into Python seems too intimidating. Fortunately, ...

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, ...

Say hello to my little friend. AutoHotkey is a small utility that 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, ...