tested with Autohotkey 2.0.7 on Windows 11

ahko is a quick launcher for windows.

right click the ahko tray icon, and then click the Setup

ahko scans two levels of directories in the watch folder. The number of objects per directory level is limited to 16. So that a maximum of 16x16 = 256 objects can be used in ahko.

Use hotkey set in Setup page to show launcher.

` key back to upper level.

Esc to hide the launcher.

Icons can be automatically get from the file. And you can set it by your own.
Folder icons can be set by placing a png image with the name _icon.png in the folder.

Item's icon can be set by placing a png image with the same name as the item.
For example, put abc.lnk and abc.png in the same folder, the icon of abc.lnk would be set to abc.png.

Created with ahk autoupdate template