Autohotkey
June 10, 2008
Want to automate a third party app that does not supply a command line interface or just create some keyboard shortcuts then you must try autohotkey. We originally came across this tool when creating a build and deployment process for microsoft crm. The problem we had was that there were a lot of gui wizards of different quality to run when you upgrade between environments or refreshing a developers box with the latest production databases. We were able to use autohotkey to take a day long manual intensive process down to about 30 minutes which only needed a single click to kick it off.
Another example was when the infrastructure manager asked me how he could apply some changes that required a lot of clicks, running scripts, editing the registry to 50 servers consistently. I gave him a quick tutorial on autohotkey and he was sold. He also loved how a autohotkey script could compile down to a single exe.
have a look at some of the great things people have achieved with autohotkey
you can download it from http://www.autohotkey.com/
there is also a fork of the code that has a lot more support for internet explorer at http://www.autoitscript.com/
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