In the early days before Windows was even a thought in Bill’s head, We used IBM Text Editors to do EVERYTHING on computers and not having a mouse or a way to manipulate the cursor meant single char typing and nothing more.

An editotr called “Vi” was my first exposure to shortcut(hot)keys that were eventaully called macros. If you do not do a lot of work with a text editor, and are not a regular user of keyboard commands , then macros are probabbly not going to be usefull in your click-click-click daily routine.
If +F4, CTRL+(A|C|V|P), F3, and ALT+Tab are unfamiliar to you, You are not a Keys oriented person and using a mosuse recorder is , lets face it , just plain lazy.
That being said,
If the world of macro automation and doing more work with less keystrokes makes you curious, then Easy Macro Recorder is a GREAT place to start learning all about Macros. Its easy easy easy to make long complex routines into simple commands that you can use from the keyboard without digging through manuals and having to learn all the shell hotkey comands from scratch.
I think if more people knew the power of macros,
they would have simply typed Ctrl+Shift+G to activate thier custom goto GAOTD macro to get here each day.

PS If i recall, windows 3.1 – 98 had a macro recorder and Easy Macro Recorder is a Very nice expansion if you used to use macro recorder in “WIN”

The program offered here today can’t compile macros, but it’s still useful in the same sense if multiple people use the same computer or if the recipient also has the program installed.

This program isn’t very useful to me. I have software that does the same basic thing, but with a lot more added features (Focus a window, resize a window, move the mouse according to a window..). There’s a lot of programs out there that do so much more than today’s offer for $10-$20 more than this program costs.

FYI, exit the program from the taskbar to register it. I panicked a bit when I couldn’t figure it out.

The only actions that do work are: RECORD, STOP. Since nothing occurred, the PLAY does not occur.

I am using Windows 2000 SP4, and the version of Windows Explorer that comes with Windows 2000.

Bad software. Don’t make claims about software until it is properly tested and don’t bother me again with software like this!

This does not enhance Give Away of the Day’s credibility.

It would also be better if the loop setting was stored in the macro, not in the global settings, so you could have different loop settings for different macros. However, this is a minor complaint.

I used this to copy 300 pages from a document that did not allow selecting text or copying. Combined with Jing, the macro selected the screen area to be copied, copied it to the default directory, accepting the default name, then went to the next page. The free version of Jing saves screen captures in png format, and IrfanView can display the series of png files as if they were pages in a book.

A useful combination of utilities to capture online content for browsing offline, like wikis or ebooks or dynamic websites or the like.