# Is there a version of windows 3.1's 'record macro' feature for vista?

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [July 1, 2009, 10:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-version-of-windows-3-1s-record-macro-feature-for-vista/501639 "2009-07-01T22:57:20Z")\
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**Author:** ![Lobsang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobsang/32/4067_2.png) [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)\
**Post date:** [July 1, 2009, 10:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-version-of-windows-3-1s-record-macro-feature-for-vista/501639/1 "2009-07-01T22:57:20Z")

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To put it another way: Is there a way of automating a particular commonly performed sequence of actions?

The actions I want to perform are…  
Open media player  
double click ‘songs’ (this adds all songs to the current playlist and begins to play them)  
click the ‘edit list’ button.  
click the ‘now playing’ dropdown  
click ‘shuffle list now’.  
move the scrollbar up to the top  
double-click the top song on the list  
I think you can understand from the number of items on that list, and when I tell you that the application has a time delay between some of those items, why I would like to automate the process.

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**Author:** ![Captain\_Morgan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/bc8723/32.png) [@Captain\_Morgan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Captain_Morgan)\
**Post date:** [July 1, 2009, 11:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-version-of-windows-3-1s-record-macro-feature-for-vista/501639/2 "2009-07-01T23:12:07Z")

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Check out [AutoHotKey](http://www.autohotkey.com/), I’m pretty sure it’ll do what you need.

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**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\
**Post date:** [July 2, 2009, 4:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-version-of-windows-3-1s-record-macro-feature-for-vista/501639/3 "2009-07-02T04:46:10Z")

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I use this: [http://www.macroexpress.com/](http://www.macroexpress.com/) Works great.