Is there a program that can wiggle my mouse every 5 minutes?

[Antonius_Block]

@Yag Rannavach

I seem to remember autoit and autohotkey being related sometime in the distant past.

You’re correct. The Help File for AutoHotKey says:

A special thanks to Jonathan Bennett, whose generosity in releasing AutoIt v2 as free software in 1999 served as an inspiration and time-saver for myself and many others worldwide. In addition, many of AutoHotkey’s enhancements to the AutoIt v2 command set, as well as the Window Spy and the script compiler, were adapted directly from the AutoIt v3 source code. So thanks to Jon and the other AutoIt authors for those as well.

The C++ source code for AutoHotKey is available, which I don’t think is true for AutoIt (for what that’s worth).

Red Barchetta, after playing around with the script I gave in post #16, I decided to tighten it up to solve two potential slight (and extremely unlikely to occur) problems. I prefer this, which uses inherently relative mouse positioning, (and is one line shorter!):

SecondsDelay=1
Distance=1
StartWiggling:
MouseMove,Distance,0,0,R
MouseMove,-Distance,0,0,R
sleep SecondsDelay*1000
goto StartWiggling

[This is for the 1-wiggle-per-second test version. Replace the “SecondsDelay=1” with “SecondsDelay=240” to give a once-per-4-minute wiggle rate as before.]