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I use AutoHotkey every day but find it’s not very reliable. I have one script that checks if the current window is File Explorer and if it is, gets the currently selected file or directory and does something with that. If I have more than one tab open, it will usually (but not always) give me the selected item from a different tab. Reloading the script fixes the issue sometimes.

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It looks like Explorer tabs are a very recent addition to W11, so perhaps it isn't fully supported by AH1?

Unless by 'tabs' you mean 'instances' or 'windows'?

It works sometimes and when it doesn’t, reloading the script will sometimes fix the problem.

I just asked ChatGPT how to get the currently selected file in the current tab of File Explorer in AutoHotkey and it spit out code that works quite a bit differently than mine. Later today I’m going to figure out what it’s suggesting and see if a different approach is needed.

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The ChatGPT code is nonsense that looks like AutoHotkey code.

Ahaha oh dear, well at least you tried.

I ended up uninstalling the older version of AHK that I had installed and updated to v2 and rewrote the script using a slightly different (and simpler) method of getting the currently selected item in the window. So far today it’s working…

Tabs are new in the Windows Explorer, right? Did you update your script to reflect that?

I’ll look at it again, but it seems if that were the problem then reloading the script wouldn’t change anything.

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