I've customized my Windows GUI quite usefully, though when most folks use my machine they end up getting confused because of my very personal customizations
I'm curious what other AHK users have done to customize their systems.
Here's what I have scripted:
A script to let me scroll hovered nonfocused desktop windows with the mousewheel. Very useful when you don't want to lose your place in an app or need to scroll a window during drag-n-drop.
I continue to use an old app called Pop-Mouse, which lets me make little counter/clockwise circles with the mouse to send browser forward/back. There are many similar mouse-gesture apps but they all require holding a mouse button down simultaneously. I'm sure this could be emulated in AHK with some work. Download Pop-Mouse
My left, right, and middle side mouse buttons are scripted to act as Close App, Close Tab, and Minimize respectively, applied to the currently hovered window. Within Firefox/Chrome, left acts as Close Tab instead since middle-click opens tabs in the background in those apps. The Close bind is the one that gets everyone who uses my machine I have actually scripted a Suspend-toggle hotkey to compensate.
On tabbed apps, scrolling the mousewheel over the tabstrip (ok, the top 110px of the window) lets me switch tabs (Send ^{Tab}), whether focused or not.
Win+G is scripted to copy the currently selected text to clipboard and "Go" to it. If a filepath is found, it extracts just the path and open it in Windows Explorer. URLs are opened in the browser, and other text is Googled.
Win+C opens a command prompt (try TCC/LE for a great Windows command prompt). I've additionally scripted Win+C and Win+E (Windows Explorer) to extract a filepath from the currently focused window's title/text; if one is found the command prompt/Explorer window will start in that directory. Very useful to open a folder corresponding to your text editor's current file, or to open a command prompt from the current Explorer window (or v/v).
And of course a range of other global hotkeys (mostly Win+ bound) and reactions to window opening/closing events.
I haven't posted any of this script work on the forums yet, but if you're interested in something let me know.
I would be hard pressed to switch to an OS where AHK was not available. Watching
IronAHK closely...
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