Comments on: Automate Mundane Tasks With WinAutomation

By: Simon Mackie

Simon Mackie — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 16:12:38 +0000

That link was working last week when Meryl submitted the post, Virgintech — Winautomation must have broken it.

By: Meryl Evans

Meryl Evans — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 16:02:16 +0000

Virgintech, we tested the link and it was working. You can see the screen shot on this page: http://winautomation.com/features.html. It is still pointing to the same location for the larger file, but it’s not opening. We’ll let Winautomation know.

By: Jungchanhsieh

Jungchanhsieh — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 16:44:19 +0000

I would love to have this handy tools professional edition to increase my daily multi Task work.

Thanks

By: Win a Copy of WinAutomation 3.0 Professional Edition, Worth $199 [WebWorkerDaily]

Fri, 07 Aug 2009 16:40:09 +0000

[...] this week, Meryl reviewed WinAutomation, a package that lets you automate many of the routine tasks you do every day on Windows PCs. The [...]

By: VirginTech

VirginTech — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 16:18:37 +0000

This seem to be a good tool automating tasks.
But meryl could you please fix the broken link with the anchor text “huge list of predefined actions”.
Its not working.

By: Win a Copy of WinAutomation 3.0 Professional Edition, Worth $199

Win a Copy of WinAutomation 3.0 Professional Edition, Worth $199 — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 16:01:56 +0000

[...] 7th, 2009 (9:00am) Simon Mackie No Comments Earlier this week, Meryl reviewed WinAutomation, a package that lets you automate many of the routine tasks you do every day on Windows PCs. The [...]

By: marios

marios — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 15:10:14 +0000

That’s a good question, why pay for a program when there are free alternatives.

In this case though, the tools you have mentioned (AutoIT and AutoHotKey) while they are excellent tools in their domain they are not real alternatives to WinAutomation. They are merely elaborated scripting languages and you must be a programmer or at least a extremely advanced and knowledgeable user to use them. Not everyone is a 20+ year professional programmer like yourself :-)

WinAutomation, to start with, does not require any programming or writing code. It provides a graphical user interface that anyone can use without any programming experience. Instead, you drag and drop actions one after another, and you can build any automated job with a few mouse clicks.

While WinAutomation includes a Macro Recorder module, it goes far beyond simple mouse and keyboard recording. It has numerous built in actions, a visual designer, different triggers to run jobs automatically, detailed logging, exception handling (actions to be taken when something goes wrong) a job compiler, to turn your jobs into standalone exe files and much more.

I suggest that you take a look at the website (http://www.winautomation.com) and have a look at the introductory video to get a rough idea about the features of WinAutomation. If you choose to download the trial I am confident that you will soon be able to justify the price (which btw starts at $129).

Good to hear that you type like a banshee! But, you know, typing can never be fast enough ;-)

By: rwMcCall

rwMcCall — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 09:44:32 +0000

I'm curious as to hear a comparisons to the open source, mature and free AutoIT and its more familiar companion, AutoHotKey? It's been a few years since I've used AHK, but even back then it was robust and useful. For $200, what does WinAutomation provide other than macro recording (although to do that within a Windows OS is no small feat)? Note that as a 20+ year professional programmer (almost a software engineer :-) using AHK's language is not too steep a learning curve, but for a sys admin, home user, or DBA (Don't Bother Asking!), the macro recorder may worth more than $200. And to answer your question: I've learned to type like a banshee :-) Lasting Peace and Happiness for ALL!