Directives enable direct (sometimes brute force) commands for many operations. Windows management: AutoHotkey has many Windows controls, including Groups (GroupActivate, GroupAdd, GroupClose, GroupDeactivate). PixelSearch searches for pixels by color.

PixelGetColor records the color of single pixels at precise screen coordinates. Screen management: AutoHotkey's ImageSearch command can search screen regions for images. Hotstrings: Hotstrings expand abbreviations into full text, but they can trigger any action you can script. Pros Setup options: AutoHotkey's setup process includes options galore. Best of all, AutoHotkey is open source freeware. You can also write macros or use the app's macro recorder. So why not downgrade to the version you love? Because newer is.ĪutoHotkey automates keystrokes and mouse clicks to more efficiently handle repetitive tasks, like clicking through screens or entering your street address. provides free software downloads for old versions of programs, drivers and games. (I mean, you could probably set up a virtual machine with some older Windows version and record your scripts there with AWS, if you are not ready to move on).ītw, did you make sure that you actually have the ASWHook.AutoHotkey automates keystrokes and mouse clicks to more efficiently handle repetitive tasks, like clicking through screens or entering your street address. Perhaps it's time to finally move on to a more up-to-date script recorder, like suggested above, if you really need one. On my Win10 (64bit) version, AWS 2.0.0.0 still seems to work. I had problems updating Win10 and are still behind. Afaics, AWS wasn't even open source.īut no idea what the problem might be with Win10-2004. After all, AHK was just forked from AutoIt in 2003 and didn't have all the built-in capabilities of later versions. ASW stands most likely for Auto Script Writer and is probably used for hooking the keyboard or something similar. It seems there was actually a file called ASWHook.dll included with the AutoScriptWriter.exe by Larry Keys, but that DLL from 2003 has probably nothing to do with Avast.

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