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AHK News 2025-10-02 Remembering being New to AutoHotkey

AutoHotkey Newsletter

Howdy %Name%,

I just had a call with Alexander, a new AHK Hero member out of the Philippines.

He’s been working with AutoHotkey for around 4 months now (mostly using Hotkeys and HotStrings) but is leveling-up quick❗

It reminded me of my beginning uses of AutoHotkey. I only used HotStrings and Hotkeys for ~3 years. And that made me 3X to 4X more efficient than my colleagues!

He’s already completed our Intro to AHK course and is working through our Intermediate AHK course.

I mentioned our Functions / Objects / Classes course would be the next logical step for him.

Of course, he being an AHK Hero member he gets 25% off of everything we offer!

How long have you been using AutoHotkey %Name%❓

And what was your first usage❓ I’d love to hear it!

Now on with the show…

Access all our Courses; Quit when you want

AutoHotkey is Life Changing❗

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Creating Hotkeys for Actions in MS Office

I was really surprised to learn how difficult it was to assign Hotkeys to actions in various MS office tools. I recorded this video to show how you can simplify it with AutoHotkey

Creating Hotkeys for Actions in MS Office

Starting Out with the MS Word COM object

During an AHK Hero call Dale, a long-time Hero member, had some questions about working with the MS Word COM object. I extracted the section to this video so you can learn.

Working with the MS Word COM object

HotStrings tool by Hero Member

Speaking of HotStrings, we were talking through some HotString basics when, Stephen, an AHK Hero member, mentioned he has a HotString tool that he’s created. You can check it out here.

Hotstrings and Cool user tools

Non-AutoHotkey Developer User tools

You also might want to check out Prompt Assistant which also let’s you assign HotKeys and provides a nested GUI that is easy to use.

We’re working on new functionality to it soon which will allow you to, automatically, send your prompts to AI!

Learn more about Prompt Assistant in this video

Supercharge Your Efficiency with these updates to Prompt Assistant

Improving People’s Lives: Story #65

We had another call with a Texas government representative a few weeks ago. We’re trying to get his employees access to our AHK courses.

During the call I showed him Prompt Assistant and it blew his mind!

What we’re reading

Interesting ways to reuse old PC parts
Why Plex is my favorite way to stream
Why Turning Off Your Location doesn’t turn off tracking
How I stopped my Roku from Tracking me

AI News that you Need to Know

Sora 2 was released and it looks very impressive!
Claude’s Sonnet 4.5 is amazing for coding!
Get Anthropic’s Claude Extension for VS Code
PayPal’s Honey to integrate with AI for shopping assistance

⚡️Productivity tips: HotStrings are magical

I can make you a bet that you should have more HotStrings! I remembered, back in 2022, Ryan Wells and I brainstormed can came up with 65 unique examples.

How many of the 65 are you using %name%❓

Want to learn more❓ Check out this quick video

Stop Repeating Yourself! Use Text Expansion to Type Smarter

A spot of Humor: Just Wow!

Lately I’ve been watching Police “Body Cam” videos. This one stood out as being completely over the top! Those boys in blue just don’t get paid anything near what they deserve!

Insufferable Brat Finds Out She Can’t Call 911 On Cops

What we utomated this week with AutoHotkey #104

In this video, I walk through several real-world AutoHotkey projects I’ve been building, from email merge automation and clipboard tools to impersonator detection for social media.

I also highlight workflow optimizations, showcase updates to my AHK toolkit and NEW Editor, and share resources for anyone looking to streamline tasks with automation.

104 What we Automated with AutoHotKey #104

Clients say…

Holy shit❗ This is amazing — Dr. Kamran J. (Radiologist)

AHK Hero

Consider joining the AHK Hero club! Members receive 25% off courses, consultations, tutoring, done for you project work, etc. Currently we have over 469 hours of recordings teaching AutoHotkey that is exclusive to AHK Hero members❗

You can watch 1 hour a day for a year and not repeat content! That’s a lot of AHK Learning!

During this Friday’s call we’re planning to discuss:

Help AHK Hero Members with their Questions & Code
Creating scripts that don’t break when shared with others
Creating Custom Controls in AHK (to create a Toolbar)
65 Unique Examples of HotString usage
Using Double slash //, Floor, Ceil, Round, Abs, Exp, Log, and Random
API call to Google Sheets v1 example
Object Oriented Programming- getting a reference to an element & reusing it
Update to Clipster– Pasting Files
Comparing Cloned objects verse Copied Objects / Strings
Hotkey Loop & MsgBox issue

They also have access to exclusive & pre-released content and a 3 hours a week where we help people with their AHK issues (the Saturday calls are geared towards people new to AutoHotkey.)

️ Quotable quotes

Never give up, never surrender, and always go for the win. — Charlie Kirk
Work harder on yourself than you do on your job — Jim Rohn
Decisions without actions are worthless — Dan Kennedy

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P.S. When learning AutoHotkey we all start somewhere. Programmers have an easier time using advanced functionality however anyone can learn it if you apply yourself!

AHK News 2025-08-07 MASSIVE AI News This Week! Claude 4.1, GPT-OSS, Grok & More!

Howdy %Name%,

What an amazing week for AI❗

Claude 4.1 was released (it’s an incremental update but still promising)
Open AI released two powerful open-source models & GPT 5 is expected to drop very soon
Grok Imagine, xAI’s new AI image and video generator, lets you make NSFW content
Google’s Genie 3 lets you interact with a “world model”

Over the past couple of months I’ve been spending more time using AI tools (mostly Claude and Grok) to create AutoHotkey tools.

I can confidentially say that AI has finally gotten good enough at AutoHotkey v2 to be used for solving most things.

Is it perfect? No.

But it is very rare that I run into a problem that it cannot solve.

How about you❓ Are you using AI to develop your scripts❓

Over the weekend I (okay Claude) created an AutoHotkey v2 class that connects to OpenRouter.ai

What’s interesting about OpenRouter is that I can, currently, choose between 400+ models from 60+ providers.

All I have to do is pass the model name as a parameter and, BANG, I’m working with a different model.

Check out this short video showing me call different models back to back.

We discuss AI a lot in our AHK Hero group. Click here to learn more.

Use Hundreds of Models with OpenRouter.ai

Now on with the show…

Creating videos with NotebookLM

Earlier this week I saw Notebook LM added the ability to generate videos.

Patiently, I’d visit everyday to see if it had rolled out to my account yet.

Finally, this morning, I had access❗

Here’s a link to the video. What do you think? I miss the “podcast” approach where two people are discussing a topic. But I do think the video helps it keep attention.

No, The newest AI model won’t save you

Is the User an Admin ?

Some things we do with AutoHotkey are only possible if the script is run at an “admin” level.

Unfortunately most users don’t know what “being an admin” actually means.

So, instead of asking users, we created this script which let’s us pragmatically detect if the user is an admin or not. You can see how we use it in this video.

Please keep in mind, whiel there is the built-in AHK variable A_IsAdmin, this is not the same as checking if the USER is admin.

Determining if the User is an Admin

Easily Renaming your Files

I was trying to use our AHK v1 Easy File renamer and it had a slight bug. I gave it to Claude AI and asked if it could fix the issue.

Claude’s first response was something like: “I can fix it however, I see this is AHK v1 code and I know you prefer v2 code; let me convert it to v2 for you…”

Now everyone on the-Automator team had looked at the v1 code and decided it was just too complicated to be worth making the change. Claude, on the other hand, wasn’t as lazy.

The code it gave me didn’t run on the first try

But it did on the 2^nd❗

Not only that but, it implemented the “undo” feature which we had not done!

During a Hero call I was showing it off and someone asked if it handled recursive files/folders.

During the AHK Hero call Isaias implemented that which you can see in this video.

Adding Folder Recursion to Simple File Renamer in AutoHotkey v2

If you want to see a full demo of the AHK V2 Simple File Renamer script you can see it in this video.

You can learn about file looping in our Intermediate AutoHotkey course

Great tool for Easily Renaming your Files with SimpleFileRenamer