AHK-Studio stuck at downloading

You need to let the main AutoHotkey executable (or AHK-Studio.exe if it's compiled) through your firewall so that it can update and download its dependencies. It does this on every startup, but you can disable it by creating an empty file called NoUpdate.txt in AHK-Studio's directory (where AHK-Studio.ahk is located)—but you'll probably want to let it update at least once after a fresh install, or else the themes and languages won't be set correctly and you might not be able to see/read it.

Try this link: https://github.com/maestrith/AHK-Studio/archive/master.zip

This link works for me, the other one may be down atm

Since this only happens with Windows 7 fresh installs (or without security updates).

Here's how to fix:

1. Install 2019 security updates
2. Some other updates provided by ProtonVPN (while installing it will automatically install required updates)
3. These 5 updates in order.

After installing these three, AHK-Studio can now access internet connection and complete downloading process.

Mission accomplished!