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I want to be able to send a Hotkey to a friend for him to borrow, but only as a temporary thing. Is there a way for the hotkey to delete itself in a certain time limit after activation?

Sure - FileDelete the ahk file and use the ExitApp command.

Suspicious.

Simple and effective..





Today is the 295 day of the year. Just set the number to a short period in the future. Put this code at the start of your code and it will check the current day of the year and delete the file if the day is equal or greater then your "trip" date.

Ok so what this does is, if I run the AHK for this code, it will dete the AHK. But the EXE for this does nothing. What would I put for the directory if i wanted to delete the EXE upon activation of the EXE?

I mean 'cuz I'll just be sending the EXE to my buddy. And I'd want that to delete after a certain time period.

Use cmd (Comspec).

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i speeded it up
If A_Now > 20

at first i seen it in recycle bin

im new but to delete it and by pass recycle bin
shouldn't it be Shift + Delete

If you use >20 it will always go off. As , this is much lower then any date shown by A_Now (20091225000000)

Try this. Have a FileInstall comand in your script that drops a delete file that is ran on exitapp..

write this into your code.


Create a second little exe that contains only these lines and is named deleter.



and at the very start of your main script include..


That should work for you. You can always have the "Deleter" put into a temp directory or have it as a hidden file. You can tweek this method as much as you want... change locations and names..

The problem you will have is that you must close the program before it can be deleted. So, you start a second program and then kill the first with the second.

FileDelete will not send it to the recycle bin.

i have not tried it but thank

try this code