Weird. Mine runs at startup without any hassle. Never had any issues with it even after moving to W10 x64. Same here. All of my scripts just worked when I upgraded from Win7 -> 8 -> 10. The scripts have always worked fine. The problem was getting AutoHotkey to start automatically when Windows is bo...

Oldskool wrote:Weird. Mine runs at startup without any hassle.
Never had any issues with it even after moving to W10 x64.

Just curious, do you have AHK in one of the two startup folders?

After spending WAY too much time on this, I found a better way. Just add the following registry key. (This is Windows 10 Professional 64-bit) HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\WOW6432Node\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run New -> String Value Name = AutoHotkey Value = "C:\Program Files\AutoHotkey\AutoHo...

Ok, thanks. What a PITA! Seems like there should be a way to tell Windows that you completely trust certain applications.

Recently upgraded from Windows 7 Ultimate to Windows 10 Pro and AHK is not automatically starting at bootup like it did under Win 7. Its in the Startup folder and that shortcut is set to run as administrator.

What am I missing?

Thanks