A few weeks back I posted some problems with running AutoHotkey (AHK) in Windows 8, and that the solution was to run your AHK script as admin. I also showed how to have the script start automatically when you logged into Windows. What I didn’t realize at the time though was that the method only worked because I had disabled UAC in the registry (which prevents most Metro apps from working in Windows 8, and likely isn’t acceptable for most people).
So here is a Windows 8, UAC-friendly method to accomplish the same task (also works in previous versions of Windows). The trick is to use…
Read more at http://blog.danskingdom.com/get-autohotkey-script-to-run-as-admin-at-startup/