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.