Windows Automation - Automate Everyday Tasks on Windows
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Windows Automation
Why Windows Automation?
Routing Computer Tasks
Computers have significantly improved productivity. Most of us cannot even imagine to go back to paper trail days.
But are we really using the power of computers effectively?
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How to make computer work for you?
We perform so many repetitive tasks on computers today. Thousands of clicks and keystrokes everyday, doing the same things, again and again. In some ways it is like going back to those paper trail days. Different repetitive tasks with a different tool, but the same inefficiencies.
For many of us we don't even realize the number of repetitive tasks we perform. These everyday tasks take up quite a bit of our time. Not to mention the many computer users suffering from repetitive injuries.
It is about time for us to join the next step in the evolution of productivity improvement. Let computers do many of these repetitive tasks for us. Often we can automate 10% to 70% of what we do on computers. All it requires is our willingness to recognize many tasks as repetitive and a desire to work smartly.
What can you automate?
Tens and hundreds of things that we all do on our computers.
1. Everyday task:
- Login to websites
- Check emails
- Typing standard email replies especially in your workplace
- Opening few standard programs everyday
- Opening few documents that you use everyday
- Typing email signatures, pre-defined paragraphs or URL etc.
- Filling forms, generating reports and formatting them
How much does all of these lead to? Possibly thousands of keystrokes and clicks, or more everyday.
2. Computer management:
Computers are an essential part of our everyday life and we want it to run at optimal performance, virus and spyware free. Did you know that computer management can be automated?
- Automate spyware checking to run every few days
- Automate virus checking to run routinely
- Clean your temporary Internet files, recycle bin, temporary files, etc. every few days and gain more hard disk space
- Clear cookies every month or so for privacy
- Auto shutdown your machine every night or over the week-end to increase computer performance and save electricity.
A handful of software that you use currently may offer some kind of a feature to automate it. Check the software you are using to see if it provides these features.
