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 virtually *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).
- 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 even 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.
- Create custom tray icon menus.
- Use a joystick as a mouse.
- Monitor your system at chosen intervals (e.g. close unwanted windows the moment they appear).
- Automate game actions using high-performance hotkeys and commands such as PixelGetColor.
- 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.

Platforms: Win95 , Win98 , WinME , WinNT 4.x , Windows2000 , WinXP

System requirements: None (it uses very little memory)