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WinParrot Reviews

1. Carl

   over 1 year ago
   An easy to use and surprisingly capable macro recorder

   WinParrot is a tool which can record your mouse clicks and keypresses, and then replay them later, allowing you to automate many common PC tasks.

   You might have the program open a browser, go to a website and carry out some specific action, for instance. You could run a screen grab tool to capture an image, then do something with the resulting file. Or you might use WinParrot to set up a software demo, such as entering figures into a spreadsheet, and producing a graph with the results.

   Setting this up is surprisingly simple. The program's portable, so there's no installation: just launch it, click Record, and start carrying out whatever action you like. Press the End key when you're done, and the recording stops: easy.

   As with all macro recorders, there can be complications, particularly with mouse clicks. If you're automating Windows Calculator, say, and the Calc window launches in a different position to when the macro was recorded (which will happen if you ever move it in the future), the clicks will be sent to the wrong position and your sequence will fail.

   WinParrot does far more than most free macro recorders to help you resolve problems, though. It clearly displays your sequence of steps after recording, for instance. A Debug mode helps you better understand how your macro works. You can edit steps easily, advanced users can extend their macros with a supplementary programming language, and when you're done you can even schedule macros to be run whenever you like (see the online documentation for more).

   👍 Pros:    100% free- no pub|No installation and no admin right needed

Microsoft Power Automate mentions (31)

• Is there any open source no code workflow tool?

  Hi, I am trying to build a no code tool workflow tool with blocks and connections between the blocks. Similar to power automate: https://powerautomate.microsoft.com/en-us/. Source: almost 2 years ago

• Spreadsheet: export link in CSV

  Windows has an option called Power Automate https://powerautomate.microsoft.com/en-us/ that allows for, well automating such tasks as manually copying / pasting data https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/power-automate/getting-started. Source: almost 2 years ago

• My coworkers and I have decided to start filling out the forms

  Try to use automation to fill it out ( https://powerautomate.microsoft.com/en-us/ for example). Source: almost 2 years ago

• Automating my monkey job

  Https://powerautomate.microsoft.com/en-us/ might be something worth checking out if you have access. Source: about 2 years ago

• Should I quit learning Python?

  What is it that you actually want to achieve? Learning Python should have an overarching goal. Like being a programmer. If you would rather not be a programmer, and you don't like programming, but you would like to automate certain things on your PC, you might as well download and install https://powerautomate.microsoft.com/en-us/ . If you intend to understand, or work with, Big Data or AI, then Python totally is... Source: about 2 years ago

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