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Pulover's Macro Creator is an automation tool and script generator that provides users with a variety of functions, as well as a built-in activity recorder. You can not only add keystrokes and mouse actions to your scripts, but also manage windows, controls, files, strings, search images/pixels and even create if/else statements to control the flow of your macros. The program helps both with simple, repetitive tasks as well as complex automation efforts.
Tutorial videos are available.
Developed using AutoHotkey.
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Runs on: | Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10 |
Writes settings to: | Application folder |
Stealth: ? | Yes |
Unicode support: | Yes |
Path portability: | Requires manual entry of relative path (eg. ..\..\personal\work.doc) |
License: | Freeware/Open Source |
How to extract: | Download the "Portable" ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch MacroCreator.exe. |
Similar/alternative apps: | AutoHotkey, Mouse Recorder Premium, LSMacro |
What's new? |
See: https://github.com/Pulover/PuloversMacroCreator/releases |
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Ennovy
on 2016-08-04 13:16
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On the homepage the link to the portable version downloads version 5.0.3 |
PhraseExpress is a keyboard macro utility that manages all your frequently used text phrases from a taskbar icon and allows you to paste them into any application with a single mouse click, a keyboard shortcut, or a text macro command. The program is ideal for email reply templates, signatures, addresses and any other information that you find yourself typing repeatedly.
PhraseExpress also includes powerful macro functions to launch programs, files or email messages, offers support for dynamic macro commands and comes with a unique text-prediction feature.
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Runs on: | Win8 / Win10 / Win11 |
Writes settings to: | Application folder |
Stealth: ? | Yes |
License: | Free for personal use |
How to extract: | Download the "Portable Edition" ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch phraseexpress.exe -portable. |
Similar/alternative apps: | Texter |
What's new? | See: https://www.phraseexpress.com/download/changelog/#client |
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bartelsmedia
on 2020-08-17 04:38
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You can find the version history here: |
Text Editor Pro (formerly EditBone) is a powerful text editor with a customizable interface. View options include minimap, directory view, line numbers, rulers, and skins. The code viewer enables syntax highlighting support for over 50 languages and scripts, customizable with over 100 options, 29 ready made styles.
Search tools include a file comparison feature, wildcards and regular expressions support, multiple directory results, and a duplicate text finder.
Other power features include macro recording and playback, hotkeys, and file execution. You can also convert untis (e.g. volume and mass), speak text, onscreen zoom, SQL formatter and more.
Supports 20 world languages.
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Runs on: | Win2K / WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10 / Win11 |
Writes settings to: | Application folder |
Stealth: ? | No. %LOCALAPPDATA%\TextEditorPro |
Unicode support: | Yes |
License: | Freeware |
How to extract: | Download the ZIP or 7z package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch TextEditorPro.exe -appinipath. |
Similar/alternative apps: | Notepad3 |
What's new? | See: https://texteditor.pro/index.php?page=history |
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webfork
on 2019-01-27 13:09
It doesn't have functionality far in advance of other editors, but the interface is great. There are big, clear icons, themes, easy tabbed interface, and a really smooth options menu. If you think text editors are supposed to be functional rather than friendly, this might not be your cup of tea. Otherwise...
PapaiMark
on 2020-02-25 15:11
Nice. The best text compare Ive ever seen. And mainly because of the trim-left/right.
eitang
on 2021-12-10 15:46
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Hi all, |
Notepad++ is a tabbed source code editor and Notepad replacement with a customizable interface. Includes source code "folding", allowing users to quickly reduce and expand sections of code to see the overall document. In addition, it features multi-language syntax highlighting, auto-completion, Perl-compatible regular expression search/replace, macro recording and playback, document map etc.
A host of additional functionality is available via the plugins admin view, including tools for file analysis, programming languages, viewers, calculations, user interface and many more.
Alternatively, Notepad++ Portable and the outdated X-Notepad++ clean the local folder.
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Runs on: | Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10 / Win11 |
Writes settings to: | Application folder |
Stealth: ? | Yes |
Unicode support: | Yes |
License: | GNU GPLv2 |
How to extract: |
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Similar/alternative apps: | AkelPad, PSPad, EditPad Lite |
What's new? | Changelog at: https://notepad-plus-plus.org/download/. |
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PAFuser
on 2022-01-19 09:26
8.2 does not seem to have sessions check box under general tab, and session does not seem to load or save. Any comments?
Mike.S.G.
on 2022-01-20 09:43
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@PAFuser |
MobaXterm provides a basic set of Unix commands (GNU/Cygwin) in a single file. The program integrates an X server and some network clients such as SSH, telnet, rlogin, SFTP etc. accessible through a tabbed terminal.
Key features:
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Runs on: | Win2K / WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10 |
Writes settings to: | Application folder |
Stealth: ? | Yes. Passwords are saved to the "ini" file by default (this can be a security risk if someone else has access to your USB drive). If you already have passwords in the registry, passwords will still be saved there. |
Unicode support: | Yes |
License: | Freeware/Open Source |
How to extract: |
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What's new? | See: https://mobaxterm.mobatek.net/download-home-edition.html |
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__philippe
on 2013-07-25 12:58
MobaXterm alternative: For a much more compact suite of Native Win32 port of stand-alone GNU utilities, *provided an X-Server is not required*, consider also
MIKLO
on 2017-04-03 14:39
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@snaphat I am still using all the time, and I still love this app, thanks for your hard work on this product great job dude :) |
AutoHotkey is a powerful automation and scripting tool with an option to export to a self-contained executable. Possible uses include assigning the hotkey "Ctrl-Alt-F" to launch Firefox, making abbreviations expand to their full definition as you type them, or saving time by setting the computer to auto-click a confirmation screen.
The program can create entire applications and has been used to create many hosted here on PortableFreeware including 7plus, WallPaper Randomizer, Gridy and many more.
Note: Though it's bit outdated (from 2021), Pulover's Macro Creator can be used as a macro recorder and includes an "Export to AHK" function.
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Runs on: | WinME / WinNT / Win2K / WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10 / Win11 |
Writes settings to: | Application folder |
Stealth: ? | No. By default, it places an ahk script file in user documents. However, if you place a ahk file with the same name alongside the executable (eg. autohotkey.exe => autohotkey.ahk), it becomes stealth. |
Unicode support: | Yes |
License: | GNU GPLv2 |
How to extract: |
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Similar/alternative apps: | AutoIt |
What's new? |
See: https://www.autohotkey.com/docs/v2/ChangeLog.htm. For major changes between v2.x and v1.x, see https://www.autohotkey.com/docs/v2/v2-changes.htm. |
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Ennovy
on 2023-02-12 08:41
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v2 will be actively developed and v1 will be considered deprecated: https://www.autohotkey.com/boards/viewtopic.php?f=24&t=112989 |
SlickRun is a floating keyword utility that allows you to create command aliases, or "MagicWords" that launch applications or URLs. For example, "browse" can be set to open Firefox, "note" to open Notepad, and more. You can type an application's path or location as well.
The program includes its own notepad program opened by typing "jot", but major applications such as MS Office and Online Shopping resources can be added using add-on packs available on the website.
SlickRun supports auto-completion, relative paths and drive letter macro for improved portability.
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Runs on: | WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10 |
Writes settings to: | Application folder |
Stealth: ? | No. It creates a lone working registry entry that does not impact portability of settings at all. |
Unicode support: | Yes. for Jot, history, autocomplete, $W$, etc. |
Path portability: | Requires manual entry of relative path (eg. ..\..\personal\work.doc) |
License: | Freeware |
How to extract: |
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What's new? | See: https://bayden.com/SlickRun/updates.asp |
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Ennovy
on 2023-11-06 14:52
Softpedia reports an update to v4.5.1.0 but the homepage is not available at the moment
Andrew Lee
on 2023-11-08 00:20
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@Ennovy: I was able to access the home page and verified that it was updated to v4.5.1.0 on 6 Nov 2023. |
PSPad is a plain text editor with syntax highlighting support and tabbed interface. It includes an integrated hex editor, spell checker, FTP client, code explorer etc. It also allows you to automate repetitive activities through macro recording and playback.
PSPad supports column selection.
Note: The 64-bit version of PSPad is not limited by memory, but is missing the scripting capability of the 32-bit version, as noted here
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Runs on: | Win95 / Win98 / WinME / WinNT / Win2K / WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10 |
Writes settings to: | Application folder |
Stealth: ? | No. HKCU\Software\PSPad Registers PSPad.project (.PPR) files |
Unicode support: | Yes |
License: | Freeware |
How to extract: |
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What's new? | See: https://www.pspad.com/en/whatsnew.htm |
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Shadeclan
on 2012-09-14 13:59
I figured out how to uninstall the user-chosen (custom) languages but it takes a little work.
Shadeclan
on 2012-09-14 14:46
If it's ok, I'd just like to make a few more comments:
rbon
on 2019-12-25 18:09
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I wanted a paf version of PSPad and I tried the online installer version of @prapper which unfortunately does not work. |
PhotoDemon is a fast, feature-rich photo editor with rotate, resize, crop, etc. and a variety of color, contrast, filters and other graphics tools. The program also allows adding text, a metadata viewer/editor, on-canvas paint tool, layers, screenshot too, and works with common graphics formats including BMP, GIF, JPG, PNG, TIFF, PSD, JP2, JXR, PPM, TGA and WEBP.
The program also supports macro edition and batch processing.
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Runs on: | WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10 / Wine |
Writes settings to: | Application folder |
Stealth: ? | Yes |
Unicode support: | Yes |
License: | BSD license |
How to extract: |
Download the ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch PhotoDemon.exe. Optionally, delete unnecessary language files. |
Similar/alternative apps: | LazPaint, paint.net |
What's new? |
See: https://photodemon.org/news/ |
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PhotoDemon
on 2020-09-11 16:28
Hi Zorro. PhotoDemon developer here. PD shouldn't have any new dependencies between v7 and v8. (In fact, its system dependencies haven't really changed since the Windows XP era!)
zorro
on 2020-09-20 14:01
Hi PhotoDemon ;-) - just wanted to send you a screenshot of the message appearing when I try to start the program... but PhotoDemon updated itsself and now the problem is gone. Means version 8.2 is working like a charm (and like old version 7.0) on my machine. Thanks for so much backwards-compatibility!
PhotoDemon
on 2020-09-21 15:49
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Thank you so much for the follow-up, Zorro! My favorite bugs are the ones that fix themselves. :D |
TinyTask is a small, simple mouse and keyboard macro recorder. Anything you do with the mouse or type on the keyboard while the program is running can be replayed as many times as you choose. Recordings can even be compiled into an executable file.
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Runs on: | Win2K / WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10 / Wine |
Writes settings to: | Application folder |
Stealth: ? | Yes |
Unicode support: | No |
License: | Freeware |
How to extract: |
Download the ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch tinytask.exe. Issue: If the program does not record mouse clicks, restart. |
Similar/alternative apps: | TyperTask |
What's new? |
See: https://www.tinytask.net/revision_history.php |
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hamasaki
on 2019-11-03 06:15
BifDefender doesn't like it, says the download zip is dangerous. False positive.
Midas
on 2019-11-03 16:23
@hamasaki: the issue has been bugging the developer for years...
hamasaki
on 2019-11-04 01:19
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@Midas. Thanks. It's ok, it's just the first time I've seen it and I've used BitDefender for quite awhile. Of course I took no notice of the warning. :) |