How to Write an AutoHotKey Script
AutoHotKey is a utility that lets you program any key stroke to become a hotkey. This applies for many instances. The most common reasons one might adopt an AutoHotKey script are to save the time of typing out certain words, shutting down your computer, stopping a song on a CD, or changing the sound level.
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Instructions
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Decide what you want a script for. You can have a script to save the redundancy of typing common words. You can have a HotKey script that closes windows. Open your HotKey control panel. This is most likely accessed from your Start menu.
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Save time repeatedly entering common words. Open "Macros" on the HotKey control panel. The first shaded area is where you type what will be the shortcut for the F7 key. Type in the wording you want a shortcut for. For example, instead of typing "To whom it may concern" every time you write a letter, you can fill that wording in the first shaded box. Then each time you hit the F7 key, those words will be automatically added.
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Set a HotKey that opens and closes your CD-drive. From the HotKey control panel, select "CD-rom". Choose a hotkey combination as the shortcut for this activity. For example, click the box next to Alt+. Then fill in the number 6 in the orange shaded area. Click "OK" to close the window. From now on, when you simultaneously click Alt+6, your CD-drive will open. Clicking it again will close your drive.
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Control sound with a hotkey. Click "Volume" from the HotKeycontrol XP. Select a combination of keystrokes to either increase or decrease the volume or to mute it. For example, to increase the volume, click the box next to Ctrl+. Then fill in the "\" symbol in the orange shaded box. Close out of the window by hitting "OK." Now whenever you want to turn up the volume, instead of fiddling through the control panel, simply execute your HotKey sequence. In this case, Ctrl+\.
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Set as many HotKey scripts as you would like. There are numerous possibilities. You can change them or delete them at anytime.
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