Set oShell = CreateObject("Shell.Application") Set wShell = WScript.CreateObject("WScript.Shell") Set fso = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject") path = wShell.ExpandEnvironmentStrings("%userprofile%") strFolder = fso.BuildPath(path, "\.kinto\kinto.ahk") oShell.ShellExecute "C:\Program Files\AutoHotkey\AutoHotkey.exe", strFolder, , "runas", 0