Automate your tasks with Windows Automation

I was looking for a nice tool to automate administrative tasks and after testing some tools I found this pretty nice tool named winautomation:

http://www.winautomation.com/download.html

The installer was just 40 MB and the installation was pretty simple (next, next, next and next):

The company name is Softmotive. They seems to be from Greece !

These guys look like they were inspired by Zeus.

What I like is that it is easy to learn and configure. It contains  three principal components:

• The job designer which is used to configure and create jobs.
• The macro recorder (my favorite) used to record your movements, mouse click and keys used.
• Finally the web recorder used to automate web tasks

All of these elements help us to automate our task in a simple way.

There are two editions of Winautomation. Professional and Standard. You can optionally include a software assurance plan for a better support service and free upgrades.

Let's take a look to the samples. Go to the samples and select the Beginner samples of the tool.
Select the Open Web Page option.

As you can see it is a simple sample to open a web page.

As you can see, the steps are numbered and you can include comments, if clauses and then run the application (in this case, internet explorer).

You can handle also variables and debug the program if necessary, it is pretty simple, easy to learn, practical.

My favorite tools are the FTP tasks:

There are pretty nice tools to automate FTP tasks.

Also I loved the excel tools to automate tasks:

You can also run DOS commands, Execute SQL statements, process emails, shutdown the computer, print documents, Run visual basic scripts, ping, log off, zip files, edit text, work with windows, and a lot of extra stuff !

I would definitely recommend this tool to automate tasks.