Windows Butler v2.3

An Autohotkey script to help you with common windows tasks, a life-saver that I just can't live without.

Table of Contents

• Usage Instructions
• List of Shortcuts
• Stuff to do
• Could be added later
• Changelog

Usage Instructions

You'll need to have Autohotkey installed.

Once you have AHK installed, download the zip, extract the contents, and Run WinButler.ahk

Have fun!

NOTE:

The capslock key's functionality has been disabled in versions greater than 1.8.

Though I know I've done you a great favor but if you don't think so, Download the older version instead.

List of Shortcuts

• In windows explorer...

  • Windows + J : Show/Hide hidden files and folders.
  • Windows + Y : Show/Hide file extensions.

• Screenshot capabilities

  Grab screenshots with ease; press one of the shortcuts and a screenshot will be saved to your My Pictures folder. You can change the path if you want to.

  • Printscreen : Save the entire screen.
  • Shift + Printscreen : Save the screen, upload to imgur and copy the URL to clipboard like a boss!
  • Ctrl + Printscreen : Save the screen but not the taskbar portion.
  • Alt + Printscreen : Save the active window.

• Alt + Ctrl + C : Launch Console in the current directory.

  Launches to root "C:\" if path cannot be grabbed.

• Windows + Space : Launch Scriptlet Library

  Take quick notes. Press Windows + Space again to save and exit.

  Useful to save random chunks of code/text or whatever.

  Scriptlets can be executed, saved to file or copied to clipboard.

• Alt + Ctrl + D : Select a phrase and then press the hotkey to find words similar to it via the OneLook Reverse Dictionary.

• Alt + Ctrl + S : Save selected text

  Select some text and press Alt+Ctrl+S, give a filename and it'll be saved to desktop. When no extension is provided, the deafult i.e txt will be used.

• Alt + Shift + S : Save selected text as AHK and execute the Script

• Ctrl + Shift + S : Works in Sublime text, Press it to launch the currently open file. PHP files are opened by the path from localhost.

• Ctrl + Shift + Esc : Launch Task manager

  This hotkey first removes any sort of restriction placed (like "Taskmanager has been disabled by your administrator").

• Alt + Ctrl + R : Launch Registry Editor

  Select a registry key like "HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Python.File\shell\open" and then Press the hotkey to directly jump to that Key. Sweet, ain't it?

  Similar to task manager, any restriction on registry editor is removed.

• In a Command prompt window

  • Ctrl + V: It is not possible to paste data directly to a command prompt window. Not anymore.

  • Ctrl + W: Close the console.

• Launch CHM Help files...

  You'll have to tweak the script to provide paths to your help files.

  • Ctrl + Shift + Q : Launch Python's help file.
  • Ctrl + Shift + A : Launch Autohotkey's help file.
  • Ctrl + Shift + Z : Launch Help Folder

To Do ASAP

• Backup Buddy Module

  • Animated TrayIcon

• Settings GUI

  • Hotkeys - Bindings, On/Off
  • Folder Paths
  • Backup Settings

• TrayMenu

  • Turn Backup Buddy On/Off

• RunFromSublime

  • Untitled Files

Could be added later

• Volume Control

  • Mute

• Core Sorting Hat Module

• Screenshots

  • Upload Prompt ??
  • Imgur User Account
  • Authorization Headers

• Goo.gl URL Shortner

  • OnClipboardChange ?
  • On Ctrl+V if IsURL()
  • Authorization Headers

• Global Ctrl + W

  • WhiteList/BlackList
  • Maps to Alt+F4
  • But in some applications to Ctrl+W

• Copy selected File/Folder's path.

• A launcher for some tasks

  • Radial Menu or Sublime like command pallette ?
  • Select text and then play with it: Google, Wiki, WikiQuotes, OneLook.
  • Detect whether the text is url, if so, open it.
  • If the text is larger than 7 words show a save to file action rather than One Look.

• Add other scripts:

  • Renamer

Changelog

• 2.3:

  Added: An About Gui. yay! Added: TrayMenu Icons for changing the screenshot size. Added: TrayIcon for when the script is suspended.

• 2.1:

  Added: Volume Control (On Screen Display). Ctrl+Up. Ctrl+Down.

  Enabled: SelectArea. Bug Fixed :) Modified: Scriptlet Library opens with Windows+Space instead of Ctrl+Space.

• 2.0:

  Added: GrabAndUpload - Upload screenshots to Imgur (Shift + Printscreen)

  Refactored: Screenshot.ahk Disabled: SelectArea Screenshot (not reliable) Added Windows + LButton to grab screen area.

  Added: Alt+Shift+S - Save and Run AHK Scripts Modified: Minor improvements to SaveScript:

  Modified: Windows+Down minimizes instead of restoring.

  Added: Windows+S - Autoshutdown in X minutes. Updated: Multiple files can be opened in sublime from explorer. Added: QtTabBar Improvements. Ctrl+PgDn, Ctrl+PgUp. Added: ALt+Ctrl+F Opens the selected file in sublime text. Remapped: CapsLock to Backspace.

• 1.8:

  Removed: Ctrl + N (New File) Hotkey. Useless.

  Changed: Printscreen now captures the screen but avoids the sidebar. Use Shift+Printscreen to capture the entirety, and Ctrl+Printscreen to capture Active Windows.

  Changed: Alt+Ctrl+C - Runs Console2 instead of CommandPrompt.

  New Modules:

  • AutoShutdown
  • Volume OSD

  Refactored into Modules:

  • Run from Sublime
  • Screennshot
  • Registry
  • Explorer

  Added: RegJump - Jumps to a specified registry key

• 1.5:

  Modified: Ctrl+Shift+Z to open Help Folder instead of PHP.

  Added: Alt+Ctrl+C to launch Console2

  Added: Ctrl+W closes the Command Prompt.

  Added: Ctrl+N to create a new file in folder.

  Explicitly added Gdip.ahk incase it is not present in your standard library.

• 1.4 :

  Added: Alt+Ctrl+D to reverse lookup words on OneLook.

  Added: Some naive hotstrings. Like "i'm" gets converted to "I'm" and such.

  Fixed: The Screenshot directory will be created if it doesn't already exist.

  Added: For Markdown (.md) files in sublime. Send Alt+M Hotkey which builds the markdown file and opens in browser - I use the MarkdownEditing plugin.

• 1.3 : Added Run from Sublime

• 1.2 : Added Screenshot features

• 1.0 : Initial Release