Windows Macros

[PeterLe]

Morning

time is perhaps one of the most valuable things we have; I'm no different and just recently I've been thinking of ways of automating repetitive tasks..
There are some good windows macros on the Market and wondered if any of already do this and which products you use?

Examples include:

Open in BA in a morning, load guardian, load excel, set data refresh to say 10, then back to 20 just before the racing starts...
At the end of the day reload guardian,remove suspended markets, close down
access Betfair extract data to my daily record in excel
Etc etc all without me having to even open my VPS

I would like to be able to screen scrape if possible, but these products seem to start from 300/400 so not sure if it would be worth while especially as my ip address would be blocked if i were to continually poll some of the betting site...
any help appreciated..
Thanks
Peter

PS It would be good if I could export the macros to .exe files so i could run on other account too..

[PeterLe]

By way of example; check out the Youtube clip from the following URL:-

http://www.winautomation.com/

Thanks
Peter

[sweetybt]

I use macromachine.

http://www.eagerplanet.com/macromachine

[PeterLe]

Hi
Yes seen that one..
Can you call a macro from within excel??

Was it worth the money and do you find it useful? (It you are able to and it doesnt give away any of your edge of course)

Thanks
Peter

[SpikeyBob]

Hi Peter,

In the past I have used AutoHotKey (http://www.autohotkey.com/) and found it very useful. It's pretty powerful and has a comprehensive scripting language that comes with it. It can also just record what you do and then you can edit any scripts it creates to tweak the macro.

... oh and it's free

HTH

Spikey

[sweetybt]

Hi
Can you call a macro from within excel??
Thanks
Peter

Yes