# Windows Mouse/Keyboard recorder

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/windows-mouse-keyboard-recorder/244198>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [May 8, 2004, 5:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/windows-mouse-keyboard-recorder/244198 "2004-05-08T17:03:50Z")\
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**Author:** ![emarkp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/3be4f8/32.png) [@emarkp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/emarkp)\
**Post date:** [May 8, 2004, 5:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/windows-mouse-keyboard-recorder/244198/1 "2004-05-08T17:03:50Z")

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Back in the day (Win 3.11 and Win95 I think), Windows had a program called “Windows Recorder” which could record a sequence of mouse clicks and keystrokes and then play them back an arbitrary number of times.

Due to the irritating limitations of one of my Windows apps, I find that such a tool would be useful–only problem is, I can’t find anything like it. I suppose with some effort I could write it, but I’d rather not duplicate the effort. Does anyone know of a shareware/freeware tool for doing this in Windows XP?

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**Author:** ![Number](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/number/32/242_2.png) [@Number](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Number)\
**Post date:** [May 8, 2004, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/windows-mouse-keyboard-recorder/244198/2 "2004-05-08T18:06:41Z")

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You can find a number of them if you search for “macro” on [download.com](http://download.com). [This one](http://download.com.com/3000-2094-10279447.html) looks promising, but I haven’t tried it.