I am a newer livesplit user and can not figure out how to make livesplit automatically go to the next split. I start the time and it never switches to the next segments it just keeps running. How do I make it so it will go from segment to segment without having to press hotkey? Help please. Thanks.

You have to link the "split" action to some hotkey, or else it would never split - that is supposed to happen. The default is Numpad0, but you can change it to something else in the settings.

You can also right click with the mouse on the livesplit window and then choose "split", but it's slower and will probably just distract you during a run.