Book description
AutoIt is becoming increasingly popular in the systemadministration field as a tool for automating administrative tasks.Although this is one of its more popular uses, you can use AutoItto automate anything in a Windows environment. This powerfulscripting language can run any program and manipulate keyboard andmouse input. With its RunAs support, administrators can performunattended installations and configuration changes using embeddedadministrative privileges.
This guide teaches you the foundations of the AutoIt v3language. You will learn about variables and includes, graphicaluser interfaces, user-defined functions, and conditional and loopstatements. You will then apply what you have learned in examplesrelated to the system administration field. The examples in thisShort Cut can be used to create anything from a game modificationto a logon script that verifies Windows updates.
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Table of contents
- AutoIt v3: Your Quick Guide
- Introduction and AutoIt History
- Variables and Includes
- Graphical User Interfaces (GUIs)
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Automation Examples
- AntiVirus Compliance Check
- AutoPatcher Fix
- Change My Documents Location
- Data Execution Prevention—Disable
- Outlook XP Preview Pane—Disable
- Enable Remote Desktop Connection and NetMeeting
- Microsoft Windows XP Update Verifier
- Proxy Server Detector for Internet Explorer
- User Lockout
- User SID Lookup
- Word Document Title Changer
- Conclusion
- About the Author
- Copyright
Product information
- Title: AutoIt v3: Your Quick Guide
- Author(s):
- Release date: September 2007
- Publisher(s): O'Reilly Media, Inc.
- ISBN: 9780596558017
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