With SharpKeys, you can assign a keyboard key for another keyboard key or assign some common programs to a particular keyboard key.

Let’s find out why you should AutoHotkey instead of SharpKeys. AutoHotkey doesn’t even play with your Registry, so you will never end up with a broken registry. However, with AutoHotkey, you can remap keys on your keyboard to open one or many programs at once or run execute some script, which you manually execute frequently. On SharpKeys, you can remap some keyboard keys with some other keys or use them to open some Windows programs, but not all.

SharpKeys is indeed a great tool, but there are some limitations. How about reusing the keys to something really useful!Ī few days ago, I have written an article on how you can use SharpKeys to edit the functionality of certain keys on your by making changes to the registry. But, pulling out those keys from their places will ruin the beauty of our keyboard and eventually our desktop, which isn’t a solution at all. Besides that, a pair of Shift, Alt, Ctrl and Windows key can also look like useless rectangular cookies on our keyboard. A few such keys are Insert, Page Up, Page Down, Scroll Lock, Menu key, etc.

Our keyboard has come a long way, and with continuous updates and improvements of different useful programs, and the changes in the way we work, some keys are no longer useful in 2019.

It is free and opens source scripting language program to automate most of the Windows repetitive actions. Need not occur at the beginning of the string, once specified, it stays in effect for the remainder of the string.AutoHotkey is a scripting software Microsoft Windows 10/87/ to create keyboard shortcuts or hotkeys, software automation and fast macro-creation.

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