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Windows GUI automation

AutoIt is a BASIC-like scripting tool for Windows GUI automation. It is used for scripting keystrokes, mouse clicks as well as general Windows scripting. Details at www.autoitscript.com.

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Automating Administration Tasks on Windows

What tools do you use and recommend for automating administration tasks for Windows-based computers? Examples of such tasks include: Installing/upgrading software Standarizing application settings Remove blacklisted applications A standardized…
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Active Directory management with low user rights

Our problem: The client, a normal user, has to be able to reset multiple passwords at once. Around 30 in one go. This would call for powershell or something along these lines, but for AD and Powershell one needs to be domain administrator. My…
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Change all network cards to auto/auto on many machines

Because of a change in networking equipment I might need to set a bunch of machines NICs back to auto negotiate. What's the best way to automate this? I'm thinking an Autoit compiled exe pushed out through group policy or SCCM. Please post your…
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Mysterious case of automatic logon without the registry settings that ought to trigger it

This question has an overlap with programming, but I think it primarily belongs here. I'm building an elaborate script in AutoIt that switches on autologon so that multiple unattended reboots are possible. I also check if autologon was already…
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Provide Administrator credentials within script

I am writing a script that runs from a user account. The script needs to execute another script as the Administrator account. Tried AutoIt's RunAs - didn't work. Tried PsExec - the same. Tried CMD's RunAs - needs manual typing of password. What…
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What security settings in IE prevent running autoit form submit macros?

I'm trying to automate logging in to Amazon Web Services with autoit on a fairly hardened windows machine. I can run a script as admin on the box and it works just fine, but when I go in as a user under the "hardened" rules (hardened by installing…
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Starting an AutoIt Script on RemoteApp Session Logon

I have a AutoIt script that I need to start when a RemoteApp session is created. The script waits for a window to appear and then extracts the text of a certain label and writes it to a file. I already have this script and it works fine when I run…
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passing exe to non-admin user outside network to install software

I'm in a dead end now and need your help. I tried everything I could find on the web, but didn't succeed. I have hundreds of non-admin domain users working on their Windows 10 laptops outside our network with no VPN connection to the domain. I need…
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How to auto-unlock a Windows Server programmatically, after hours?

We have an air-gapped Windows Server, not connected to the public or private network. There are a number of routine tasks that must be performed on this machine after hours. These have been automated using AutoIt scripts. Now, as you may know,…
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Windows: Running an AutoIt script to launch a GUI app - on a server, when no one is logged in

I want to run an AutoIt script every day at 1:00 AM on a Windows 2003 Server Standard Edition. Since this is a server, obviously there is rarely someone sitting there logged in at the console, so the procedure needs to account for this. The AutoIt…
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Change file associations for all users

I have to configure a bunch of computers with Windows XP and im trying to create a script with Autoit so make my work easier. The issue is the following: I want to make certain extensions to open with a determinate software FOR ALL USERS in the…
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