Who even remembers Windows 3.1? Yes, before Windows 95. Yes, there was a Windows before Windows 95. And it had a built in Macro Recorder. Just for fun I dug out an old copy of Windows 3.1 and installed it into a VM. Here I am recording and replaying a macro using the Windows 3.1 […]
Remember the good old days of corner shops? Long before we went to enormous super markets. The days before aisles and aisles of products that we just help ourself to? Back then you’d walk into a store and the shop keeper, who was probably the owner, would be stood behind a counter and he’d greet […]
That’s it. No more updates for XP: http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/end-support-help Time to move on. We’re on Windows 8.1 here and quite happy with it. Apparently there’s a Start Menu coming to a Windows 8.1 update soon. Revolutionary! 🙂
Have you ever tried to send a piece of Macro Scheduler code (or any other code for that matter) to someone by email or instant messaging, or even in a forum, and found that it gets mangled? HTML strips leading spaces, characters get stripped or changed, and special characters get inserted and so on. Even […]
Do you know what code signing is? Want to prevent those “unknown publisher” warnings that might pop up when you or your clients download and run your compiled macros? Then you need a Code Signing Certificate to sign your .EXEs with. Read on: http://www.mjtnet.com/blog/2011/04/26/authenticate-your-exes-discounted-code-signing/ It’s not always when downloading files that you might get this […]
Thanks to Dorian our youtube channel is looking great: http://www.mjtnet.com/youtube This is the home of all our videos, including video tutorials which you’ll also find here.
In forum post “Is it a Macro Recorder, is it an Automation Tool, or ….” Antonius asks how we can make Macro Scheduler more popular. This is not the first time I’ve been asked this. The easiest and quickest way to help is to Share. At the top right of every page of the website […]
Just been asked how to read from the system event log (what you see in Windows Event Viewer) using Macro Scheduler. As it happens there’s already an example of monitoring the event log for specific event types and responding to them in the Scripts n Tips forum here. So I’ve taken that code and modified […]
When you tell people about Macro Scheduler how do you describe it? Do you call it an automation tool, a macro recorder, a script language, a data entry tool, an interface builder, a trained monkey, or something else altogether? I’d be interested to know. To me Macro Recorder suggests only a tiny part of its […]
Happy New Year everyone! Apologies it’s a bit late. Our family Christmas and New Year was pretty full on and then just as things were meant to go back to “normal” I went down with tonsillitis. Seems something like this is going around these parts and I’m not the first. So that pretty much put […]