The How-To Geek continues his quest to make Vista actually convenient for a wider group of people with a few tips on taming AutoHotkey, the Windows scripting language that can automate keyboard ...

Looking for ways to automate the mundane tasks on your Windows computer? Here's a detailed guide on AutoHotkey to help you automate tasks and streamline your workflow.

In the meantime you can download the aforementioned scripts in a single executable file here to run them without AutoHotKey installed. If you enjoy our content, please consider subscribing.

Despite all the tasks that are automated you still run into terribly tedious ones that aren't. Create custom AutoHotkey scripts to breeze through tedious tasks.

Run AutoHotkey. On any open area of the desktop, right-click and choose New, AutoHotkey script. Enter a name for the script (in this case something like fwiw.ahk) and press Enter.

7. Right-click the file and choose Run Script. Now, whenever you type fwiw followed by a space or punctuation, AHK will replace it with for what it’s worth. If you want this script to run every time ...