Something that old-school Windows users remember is the “Recorder” program in Windows 3.1, as in the macro recorder:(image credit) This was a very short-lived but very useful program as it had the ability to record keystrokes and mouse clicks into a script and then be run later at any time. After Windows 3.1 this program disappeared, and people...

If you find yourself performing a certain task over and over (and over) again, setting up a macro to do this for you is the way to go. It may take a little bit of time up front, but it easily pays for itself. A tool which can make the process of setting up a macro easy is the open source utility AutoHotKey. With it, you can:Automate almost anything by sending...