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Get Your Custom Folder Icons Back on Any PC in One Click

Get Your Custom Folder Icons Back on Any PC in One Click screenshot

Get all your custom folder icons back on a new PC in one click, instead of re-setting them one by one.

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October 9, 2026 October 30, 2026

Signposts: Your Favorite Folders, One Click Away Under This PC

Signposts: Your Favorite Folders, One Click Away Under This PC screenshot

Open your most-used folders in one click, right under This PC beside your drives.

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October 8, 2026 October 30, 2026

Right-Click Any File, Get Its Text on Your Clipboard AHK v2 Script

ReadFileToClipboard AutoHotkey v2

Right-click any file in Explorer and its text is on your clipboard, without opening it, selecting all, or pressing Ctrl+C.

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October 2, 2026 October 11, 2026

File Manager That Actually Keeps Up With You AHKFileExplorer AHK v2 Script and Executable

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AHK File Explorer: A Windows File Manager That Actually Keeps Up With You You copy a file into a folder, flip back to Windows Explorer, and… nothing. The file is there on disk, but the…

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July 27, 2026 October 11, 2026

The WatcherFolder You Didn’t Know Your AHK Scripts Needed AHK v2 Library

The WatcherFolder You Didn’t Know Your AHK Scripts Needed AHK v2 Library features

WatchFolder for AutoHotkey v2: React the Moment a File Lands — Without Polling Ever written a script that loops every few seconds checking whether a new file showed up in a folder — and then…

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July 16, 2026 October 11, 2026

Find Files by Describing Them in Plain English file Smart File Search

Find Files by Describing Them in Plain English file Smart File Search features

Stop Hunting Through Messy Folders — Just Tell Your PC What You Want We’ve all got that folder. Hundreds of files, cryptic names, and somewhere in there are the three you actually need. Scrolling and…

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July 9, 2026 October 12, 2026

Describe It, Don’t Dig For It — Smart File Renamer AHK v2 Executable

Describe It, Don't Dig For It — Smart File Renamer AHK v2 Executable screenshot

Stop Digging Through Messy Folders — Just Ask For the Files You Want Meet Smart File Renamer: point it at any folder and pick out exactly the files you need by describing them in plain…

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July 9, 2026 October 11, 2026

Associate .ahk Files With AutoHotkey.exe Without Admin Rights with Associate AHK v2 Script

AssociateAHK AutoHotkey v2

Associate .ahk Files With AutoHotkey — No Admin Rights Required A tiny, fully-reversible tool that finally makes double-clicking a script just run it. You double-click a .ahk file and… Notepad opens. Or Windows asks “How…

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June 9, 2026 October 11, 2026

WMI Explorer — Browse Everything Windows Knows About Your PC AHK v2 Script

WMI Explorer — Browse Everything Windows Knows About Your PC AHK v2 Script screenshot

Introducing WMI Explorer — Browse Everything Windows Knows About Your PC Updated on 2026/10/31 to Version: 0.1.1 Windows knows a staggering amount about your hardware, drivers, services, and configuration — but getting at it usually…

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April 27, 2026 October 31, 2026

XP File Search: Bring Back the File Search That Actually Worked – AHK v2 Executable

XP File Search

Bring Back Fast and Simple File Search  and Search Inside ZIPs Too❗ If Windows Search has ever made you wait, given you the wrong answer, or quietly skipped a file because the indexer hadn’t caught up…

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April 27, 2026 October 11, 2026

The Fastest Way to Read Audio & Video Length in Explorer AHK v2 Script

The Fastest Way to Read Audio & Video Length in Explorer AHK v2 Script features

See Any Audio or Video File’s Length Without Opening It Ever stare at a folder of recordings wondering “is this the 3-minute clip or the hour-long one?” — then double-click just to find out? Show…

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April 27, 2026 October 12, 2026

Merge PDFs Instantly with PDFMerger AHK V2 Script

Merge PDFs Instantly with PDFMerger AHK V2 Script screenshot

Simply drag and drop your PDF files, reorder them exactly how you want, and merge them in seconds using the proven power of PDFtk. We’ve added smart detection to automatically find your PDFtk installation, so you…

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February 19, 2026 October 11, 2026

DragPath Ninja: Clipboard Magic for Explorer – AHK V2 Script

DragPath Ninja: Clipboard Magic for Explorer – AHK V2 Script features

Stop wasting time manually navigating context menus to copy file paths! DragPath Ninja is a powerful AHK V2 Script designed to revolutionize your daily workflow. Simply drag any file or folder from Windows Explorer or your Desktop, and this…

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February 18, 2026 October 11, 2026

Claude Skill Reviewer AHK v2 Script

Quicky review your Claude AI skills and modify   Updated on 2026/02/02 to Version: 0.2.1

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January 31, 2026 August 5, 2026

Configure your Main Script for Launch in VScode AHK v2 Script

Configure your Main Script for Launch in VScode AHK v2 Script features

Quick Setup for AutoHotkey v2 Debugging in VSCode Instantly configure your main AHK v2 script for debugging in Visual Studio Code. Simply select your script file and the tool automatically creates the launch.json configuration in…

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October 25, 2025 October 11, 2026

New AHK File: Templated AutoHotkey v2 Scripts in VS Code or Cursor

Quickly Create New AHK File on VScode and Cursor AHK v2 Script features

How many times a day do you start a new AutoHotkey script? For me it’s a lot. And every time it was the same routine: new file, pick a folder, type a name, paste in…

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July 2, 2025 October 16, 2026

Image Converter: iPhone HEIC, PDF and PSD to Normal Images

Image Converter main window with the Convert to list, PDF options and the drop area

Open iPhone HEIC photos, PDFs and Photoshop files and turn them into normal images. No FFmpeg, no uploads.

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March 13, 2025 October 27, 2026

FileCompare – Visual File Size Comparison using AutoHotkey V2 library

FileCompare – Visual File Size Comparison using AutoHotkey V2 library features

Instantly Compare File Sizes with Visual Progress Bars AutoHotkey V2 FileCompare demonstrates the use of our simpleBarcharts library.  It is a simple AutoHotkey V2 utility that helps you visually compare the sizes of two files…

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January 27, 2025 October 11, 2026

Get File info with File Metadata Retriever Written in AHKV2

Get File info with File Metadata Retriever Written in AHKV2

Need to quickly access detailed file properties? Look no further than File Metadata Retriever written in Autohotkey V2. This intuitive tool provides lightning-fast access to essential file information with a simple click or on Drop…

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August 3, 2024 October 8, 2026

Easily Rename your files with Simple File Renamer available both in AHK v1 and AHK v2

Easily Rename your files with Simple File Renamer available both in AHK v1 and AHK v2

Want to have a simple way to rename your files?   Check out our Simple File Renamer which is available in both AHK v1 and in AHK v2 Super Simple File Windows Renamer

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December 29, 2023 October 16, 2026

Easily Append Text files with similar structure with this AHK v1 script

Quickly Append Text files

This script allows you to, easily, select multiple text files and append them all together (only including the header once).  Watch the below video to see how easy it is and how you might tweak…

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April 22, 2022 August 5, 2026

Hotkeys For Pasting Images with AutoHotkey v1

Hotkeys for Pasting Images

A client wanted an easy way use a Hotkey for pasting images.  I remembered a script I worked on a while back that took an image and shoved it on the clipboard.  I borrowed from…

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September 2, 2021 October 30, 2026

powerful Multi-Rename Script is an Executable that can rock your world!

Multi Rename Script

Multi-Rename Script is an executable that makes it super-simple to rename multiple files. Easily rename many files with Multi-Rename Script in AutoHotkey The key idea of the video is that the Multi-Rename Script in AutoHotkey is…

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May 3, 2021 August 5, 2026
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