Its very easy to peak inside a compiled AutoHotkey script! In this AutoHotkey demo video I show
How to stop someone from taking your script |Prevent easy decompiling
In the video mention the below resources to help stop someone from taking your script
http://www.angusj.com/resourcehacker/ #download ;Resource Hacker ;Look at RCData
https://www.autohotkey.com/mpress/ ;mpress for compression
https://github.com/upx/upx/releases ;UPX for 64 bit or 32 bit compression
http://www.autohotkey.com/board/topic/82986-ahk-l-decompiler-payload-method/ with Payload; AHK_Decompiler
https://github.com/HotKeyIt/ ; AutoHotkey_H Compiler
If you want to take it to the net level with AutoHotkey_H, you can watch this AutoHotkey Webinar where HotkeyIt (author of AutoHotkey_H) walks through the “long way” to compile an AutoHotkey script with AutoHotkey_H. It’s really complicated and doesn’t add too much more of protection so I highly recommend doing the approach I do in the video!