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AutoHotkey
Quick Reference | AutoHotkey v2
Changes from v1.1 | AutoHotkey v2
Use #Requires AutoHotkey v2.0 to opt-in to v2.

Hotkeys - Definition & Usage | AutoHotkey
List of Keys (Keyboard, Mouse and Controller) | AutoHotkey v2
Use AutoHotKey to Paste Text as Typing | Blog
How to Create Custom Keyboard Shortcuts with AutoHotkey

Joe - AUTOHOTKEY Guru - YouTube

Koan

Startup

Add the .ahk (compiled or not) to (User's) Start up
Win+R, shell:startup

How to Run AutoHotKey Script on Startup Windows 10 - StackHowTo

Change Icon

how to change ahk default icon - AutoHotkey Community
SetMainIcon - Script Compiler Directives | AutoHotkey
AddResource - Script Compiler Directives | AutoHotkey

How to easily change your AutoHotkey Script Icon - YouTube

Key mapping

#keymap

Remapping Keys (Keyboard, Mouse and Joystick) | AutoHotkey

; map menu button to right click
AppsKey::RButton

Log keycodes

#persistent
#InstallKeybdHook
#InstallMouseHook
KeyHistory 10 ; Display the history info in a window.

esc::exitapp ; press escape key to exit script

via Registry

Registry can only map keycode to keycode. AHK can map key to mouse button/program.

Download KeyTweak

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Keyboard Layout]

"Scancode Map"=hex:00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,\
; ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
; BE SURE TO UPDATE THE COUNT BELOW TO REFLECT THE TOTAL NUMBER OF REMAPS + 1 (and write it as hexadecimal, not decimal)
; (1 extra for the null terminator):
; ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
04,00,00,00,\
; 01. Delete sent in place of Insert:
53,E0,52,E0,\
; 02. Home sent in place of Delete:
47,E0,53,E0,\
; 03. Insert sent in place of Home:
52,E0,47,E0,\
; 04. Null Terminator -- be sure to change the count at the top to reflect this number.
00,00,00,00

Run program

NirCmd - Windows command line tool

#^g:: Run explorer %USERPROFILE%\Dropbox  ; Win+Ctrl+G

; if using NoEnv
#NoEnv
EnvGet, home_dir, USERPROFILE
#^g:: Run, explorer %home_dir%\Downloads  ; Win+Ctrl+G
#o::Run, powershell -NonInteractive -WindowStyle Hidden %home_dir%\toggle_audio_device.ps1  ; Win+O

UI Automation

Easily automate programs with UI Automation - YouTube

Set audio output device

frgnca/AudioDeviceCmdlets: AudioDeviceCmdlets is a suite of PowerShell Cmdlets to control audio devices on Windows

Get-AudioDevice -List
Set-AudioDevice <AudioDevice>

windows 10 - Switching default audio device with a batch file - Super User

<#
Use
   Get-AudioDevice -List
to learn about available devices on your system.
Then set the two variables below with the start of their names.
#>
# these are used as prefix for names
$device1 = "3 - PHL 245C5"
$device2 = "Speakers"

$Audio = Get-AudioDevice -playback
Write-Output "Audio device was " $Audio.Name
Write-Output "Audio device now set to "

if ($Audio.Name.StartsWith($device1)) {
   (Get-AudioDevice -list | Where-Object Name -like ("$device2*") | Set-AudioDevice).Name
}  Else {
   (Get-AudioDevice -list | Where-Object Name -like ("$device1*") | Set-AudioDevice).Name
}

Toast Notification

TrayTip - Syntax & Usage | AutoHotkey

[GUI] Traytip/Toast Notification Windows 10/11 - Title remove of modify - AutoHotkey Community
ActiveScript.ahk/Example_JsRT_Toast.ahk at master · Lexikos/ActiveScript.ahk better than TrayTip