Wow, Autohotkey is officially my new favorite windows toy. In short, you can give pretty much anything a keyboard shortcut. Whether it be opening a specific file in notepad or pausing your music… Today I’ll be showing you how to show or hide hidden files in explorer by using two fingers and a keyboard shortcut.
First thing you need is to download & install Autohotkey
When you first run this program it will prompt you to create a sample script. Do it.
Now that you’ve got everything installed you’re actually almost done. You have two simple ways to activate this keyboard shortcut:
Option #1 – Download and run ToggleHiddenFile.exe. Now just fire up Explorer and hit Windows Key + h
Option #2 – You can add the source code to the sample script you created in the beginning or just add it to an existing script you’re already running. The source code was found in a comment over at lifehacker :)
You can start this script when windows starts by throwing it in your startup folder found in the start menu.
I’ll be posting a lot more autohotkey goodies once I play with it a bit more.
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