AutoHotkey- Fast scriptable desktop automation with hotkeys

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AutoHotkey is the tool of choice for automating Windows: It's both powerful and easy to use. AutoHotkey can make your computing life easier.With AutoHotkey, You can trim the time you spend replying to emails down to a third of what it would be without.

Features:-

AutoHotkey is a free, open-source utility for Windows. With it, you can:

• Automate almost anything by sending keystrokes and mouse clicks. You can write a mouse or keyboard macro by hand or use the macro recorder.
• Create hotkeys for keyboard, joystick, and mouse. Virtually any key, button, or combination can become a hotkey.
• Expand abbreviations as you type them. For example, typing "btw" can automatically produce "by the way".
• Create custom data-entry forms, user interfaces, and menu bars.
• Remap keys and buttons on your keyboard, joystick, and mouse.
• Respond to signals from hand-held remote controls via the WinLIRC client script.
• Run existing AutoIt v2 scripts and enhance them with new capabilities.
• Convert any script into an EXE file that can be run on computers that don't have AutoHotkey installed.

Plus a whole lot more...

• Change the volume, mute, and other settings of any soundcard.
• Make any window transparent, always-on-top, or alter its shape.
• Use a joystick or keyboard as a mouse.
• Monitor your system. For example, close unwanted windows the moment they appear.
• Retrieve and change the clipboard's contents, including file names copied from an Explorer window.
• Disable or override Windows' own shortcut keys such as Win+E and Win+R.
• Alleviate RSI with substitutes for Alt-Tab (using keys, mouse wheel, or buttons).
• Customize the tray icon menu with your own icon, tooltip, menu items, and submenus.
• Display dialog boxes, tooltips, balloon tips, and popup menus to interact with the user.
• Perform scripted actions in response to system shutdown or logoff.
• Detect how long the user has been idle. For example, run CPU intensive tasks only when the user is away.
• Automate game actions by detecting images and pixel colors (this is intended for legitimate uses such as the alleviation of RSI).
• Read, write, and parse text files more easily than in other languages.
• Perform operation(s) upon a set of files that match a wildcard pattern.
• Work with the registry and INI files.

For download, tutorial and more info go to : http://www.autohotkey.com/