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While working on your PC, you often do the same tasks every day, such as opening the same documents. Hot Keyboard Pro lets you create a macro to trigger these repetitive actions with a single keystroke. You can assign each macro its own hot key and schedule it to run automatically. Automated actions include opening a document, launching a program, and automatically replacing a string of symbols as you type in any Windows application. You can record and save a series of keystrokes and mouse movements and run several macros in a chain or call your own menu of macros. The program makes adding new commands a breeze. For example, you can highlight some text and press a hot key to create a new macro for any of the text-related action types. The program produced no noticeable slowdown on our PC. Also, Hot Keyboard Server lets several PCs share and exchange macros. The midrange features and ease of use make Hot Keyboard Pro suitable for power users and professionals who don't want to lay down big money for a corporate-level solution.Publisher's Description
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Automate everyday jobs with macros. Set up macros to paste signatures, phone numbers and other frequently used text; record and play back keystrokes and mouse actions; launch favorite applications; open documents you work on often; get to folders including My Documents, Control Panel, Network places; enable/disable network connections; arrange windows on the desktop and move them between displays; control media player and sound volumes even separately for each sound device. Assign macro to a hot key (keyboard shortcut), text shortcut, scheduler, window popup or system startup. Macros can be encrypted to keep safe sensitive data such as passwords and private web links. Scripting feature makes it able to run complex automation jobs as well as to use date, time, clipboard contents, external text files and many math or text functions in your macros. You can easily share macros, export and import them to other computers running Hot Keyboard.
What's new in this version: Version 4.3.40 improves Windows 8 support.
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"The best keyboard macro application I have found."
Version: Hot Keyboard Pro 4.2.31
Pros
I have been using Hot Keyboard for many years. I have hundreds of macros that I use daily to save time. Everything from adding a greeting and salutation to an email, to adding CSS coding to format my listings in ebay. Hot Keyboard is so easy with which to work. Select the text, press a dedicated key combination and voila, its done. Saves thousands of key strokes. Easy to sync two PC to the same macro library. Last but not least, the developers listen and are eager to make the product better.
Cons
Some of the options are difficult to find. For example Hot Keyboard has a search feature that helps you manage the macros. But instead of a button that is readily visible, you will find the Search option under the Print option.
Summary
I highly recommend Hot Keyboard, you can't go wrong.
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"Can't live without it"
Version: Hot Keyboard Pro 3.2.700
Pros
1. It is stable. Unlike other similar software, Hot Keyboard doesn't crash
2. It supports almost everything I need: open docs, run programs, insert text
3. It has portable version, so I can use favorite hot keys on different computersCons
I found none
Summary
I use hot keyboard on a daily basis, I've put all repetitive tasks to the hot keys and feel very comfortable. No more start menu diving to launch an app. Also I do use Hot Keyboard for other tasks, for example, I had to test a web form of 100 pages. I've recorded a macro and had a cup of coffee while Hot Keyboard was doing the job for me.
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"The software I install first"
Version: Hot Keyboard Pro 3.1.597
Pros
Macros password-protection - it lets me to add security-sensitive macros to laptop which is always at risk to be stolen
Portable version - I keep my hot keys on a usb stick
Reliable and fast - no crashes, macros run with no delay upon hot key pressedCons
Context menu item does not work with internet explorer 8
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"Does just what I wanted it to do."
Version: Hot Keyboard Pro 3.1.597
Pros
I wanted to assign a few function keys to do special operations. Hot Keyboard provided an easy way to reassign the keys, just as I wanted.
Cons
I didn't note any cons.
Summary
Hot Keyboard allowed me to reassign a few of the function keys, just as I wanted. It was easy to use and doesn't cause any problems that I have noted.
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"Problems with Hot Keyboard"
Version: Hot Keyboard Pro 3.1.597
Cons
On October 29, 2007 I purchased Hot Keyboard software from RegSoft and I received notice from RegSoft that the credit card purchase had been approved and that my purchase of the Hot Keyboard product had been completed.
RegSoft's Order Number is10292007-30992-3198. Purchase of Hot Keyboard, Tracking Number 6478266.
However I have not received a registration code from Hot Keyboard. I have made a number of requests for the registration code but have not received any reply from Hot Keyboard.
The Hot Keybord folks are either sound asleep or out of business.
Urban Mullen
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"Awesome Hot Key Manager!"
Version: Hot Keyboard Pro 3.1.597
Pros
It does what you want, Creating Hot Keys! :D
It's a great program, would never use my computer without it! :D
Cons
What about free? :D
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"Pretty good tool"
Version: Hot Keyboard Pro 3.1.597
Pros
I had a project involving transferring data from Excel to a proprietary database. Had to do a repetitive series of key strokes. HKP sped up my process dramatically.
Cons
If I set the speed to fast... it made some botched entries... but simply slowing it down solved the problem.
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"a efficiency tool, but has a bug"
Version: Hot Keyboard Pro 3.1.597
Pros
I set Ctrl+alt+0 as hot key to open outlook express ,but it dose not work. In any case, it improves my efficiency, like pengsdata give me.
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"Extremely helpful program for efficiency"
Version: Hot Keyboard Pro 3.1.597
Pros
I've used this program for a long time, and I've never found any other program more critical to my daily operations. People constantly comment that I "fly" around the computer as with a keypress combination I can launch any program or folder that I want while others are still searching for the icon or through levels of menus. This program works a lot better than Windows native key-mappings -- and even works while inside full-screen programs (ex: games). As others mentioned it is very light-weight and does what it promises. A lot of advanced functionality (macros, variables, recursive chaining) make this program really powerful - but it is easy to use for just simple purposes too (ex: I map Ctrl+Alt+I to open up (or switch back to) my web browser, Ctrl+Alt+O for e-mail, etc.).
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"good for simple, repetitive tasks"
Version: Hot Keyboard Pro 3.1.597
Pros
This product is very flexible considering its simplicity. Power users will find it very helpful in doing find/replace, cut/paste, and repetitive keystrokes one might wish to simplify. The new version includes direct editing of macros, a much more powerful feature
Cons
some bugs found; major ones include the control key getting stuck in the 'on' position, macros set at maximum speed outpacing the CPU and failing to run in entirety* Because of these, non-power users may find this more of a hassle, though simple keystroke reassignments may still prove useful.
*the addition of direct editing in the newest version provides a way to fix this, for advanced users at least.
