The left column shows the reference name(s) and the right column shows what key it corresponds with. On this page, you can see that AutoHotKey references that key as “ CapsLock”. Head over to the AutoHotKey documentation website to find a list of all supported keys.įor the sake of this example, we want to disable the Caps Lock key.

The first step is to pick out which keys you want to disable. Learning a programming language is hard, but we’re here to simplify how you can use the powers of AutoHotKey to disable the input of any of your keyboard’s keys.

Think of AutoHotKey as a simplified programming language that caters specifically to automation and creating Windows keyboard shortcuts. AutoHotKey allows you to create your own custom scripts that it will compile and run. Now that you’ve downloaded AutoHotKey, it’s important to understand what it does. We don’t need to launch AutoHotKey just yet. When the installation is complete, you can close out of it entirely. You can, of course, put this function into your existing script as well.Continue through the installation prompts using the default options, shown above. This is the function that we’ll use to resize windows with some hotkey definitions later on. You’ll want to start out by creating a blank AutoHotkey script and putting the following code into it. The basic idea is that we’ll be resizing windows to specific dimensions, or only resizing by either width or height while leaving the other the same. Here’s a sample video that shows the script in action, so you can understand what we’re going to be creating today.

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