

We recommend to keep this at the default, Unicode 32-bit. The installer is fairly straightforward except for this next step which offers multiple choices:

Okay, now that you’ve downloaded the executable, it’s time to set it up.

Out of these, AutoHotkey_L was chosen as “AutoHotkey’s future”, and is now offered on the official download page. Since the project is open-source and has an vibrant developer community, a number of efforts to continue development were started. What happened is that AutoHotkey’s original developer decided to stop working on the project but AutoHotkey wouldn’t die so fast. You may be wondering why the download page offers both AutoHotkey_L and AutoHotkey Basic. A Bit of History: Why Are There Two Versions?
