Video: Enhance your productivity with automation

by | Last Updated On May 24, 2022 | Musings, Productivity | 27 comments

This article is not really related to QTP but if you’re someone who has to spend long hours on computer (which I’m sure you do), watch the video below on how I try to automate any repetitive work.

Not sure whether automation using QTP has hit my nervous system, I try to automate ANY computer based task that I feel would need to be done more than twice. The task could be writing a similar email, retrieving values from a web page and more.

In the video below I am going to show you a free tool. Once you watch the video, don’t forget to download the free template I have created for you. (Click on the full screen button to watch the video in full size.)

Now follow these steps to install this free tool –

  1. Download and install the latest version of AutoHotKey
  2. Download my AutoHotKey template (Right Click and Save As…)
  3. Right click on this file and select “Run Script”. Type lqtp on a notepad, if that expands to https://www.learnqtp.com/ then the tool is installed properly.
  4. Now you can customize the template in your editor of choice (notepad, wordpad, notepad++ etc). (Tip: The special character # in AutoHotKey script means that you need to press the windows key on your keyboard.)
  5. To launch the script automatically every time you start your PC,
    1. Select the script(template) file, and press Control-C.
    2. On Windows 10/11, go to C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\StartUp
      [On earlier versions of Windows – Right-click the Start button (typically at the lower left corner of the screen) and choose “Explore All Users”. Navigate to the Startup folder inside the Programs folder.]
    3. Right click -> Paste Shortcut.  The shortcut to the script should now be in the Startup folder.

Please leave your comments below and let me know how you intend to use this tool. Enjoy!

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27 Comments

  1. pallavi bm on Sep 26, 2016 at 08:58

    Thank you very much for sharing this information.. it really makes our work easy… 🙂

    Reply
  2. Shalini Chaudhuri on Sep 20, 2016 at 23:03

    Will it work on outlook email,ppt?

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    • Ankur Jain on Sep 20, 2016 at 23:41

      @Shalini: Yes, it installs as a Windows application. So it will work across your system; whether it is a browser, word, outlook, ppt, excel, UFT IDE etc.

      Reply
  3. Sudhansu on Sep 20, 2016 at 21:00

    This is really cool. Specially with the frequently used comments/questions/everything. This would help me save time.

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    • Ankur Jain on Sep 20, 2016 at 23:39

      @Sudhansu: Yes, what we have shown is just the tip of an iceberg. You can do a lot of things with AutoHotKey. Check their site and forums.

      Reply
  4. zini on Mar 2, 2012 at 12:19

    fantastic idea. I will try this. 🙂

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  5. soumya on Sep 7, 2011 at 21:44

    Thanks Ankur! Its a really interesting and useful info in day to day activities….
    I would love something like this to do the job for me!

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  6. Rahul on Sep 7, 2011 at 14:49

    This is a great tool Ankur.

    I intend to use it on every opportunity , like writing mail
    replying to mails ,
    opening favorite web sites etc….

    Reply
  7. Fahim Aslam on Sep 6, 2011 at 15:04

    thnx, this tool really helps in saving one’s time

    Reply
  8. sashidhar on Sep 1, 2011 at 01:48

    Thank you Ankur!
    Very useful. I am writing batch file for opening urls and folders. I will use this for auto text.

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  9. Anish Pillai on Aug 31, 2011 at 12:57

    Very nice tool Ankur. Thanks for sharing this.

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  11. Anand Kumar Y on Aug 30, 2011 at 23:59

    As a automation tester nice to see this kind of techniques…gud work and thought to spread the knowledge that u r aware of is nice…

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  12. Deepthi on Aug 30, 2011 at 21:17

    Thanks ankur.Verymuch useful tool.Do share some more information abt this tool ,if any.

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    • Ankur on Aug 30, 2011 at 21:54

      @Chanchal: You can check with AutoHotKey documentation for IE.
      @Aravind: AutoHotKey is quite a renowned tool. There may be false positives from some anti-virus companies.

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  14. chanchal on Aug 30, 2011 at 18:27

    Ankur, kindly suggest me for multiple tabs functionality as only first url is getting opened…..

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  15. Archana on Aug 30, 2011 at 17:09

    Extraordinary tool to reduce time and effort on doing same stuff.. Thanks Ankur…Do share more valuable inputs in future also…..

    Reply
  16. mrudula on Aug 30, 2011 at 16:33

    nice ankur, super……

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  17. chanchal on Aug 30, 2011 at 14:58

    Its too good. I am not able to validate mutiple tabs functionality in browser IE8. Only ist URL is getting opened. Kindly suggest.

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  18. Dileep on Aug 30, 2011 at 14:23

    Outstanding Ankur..

    Reply
  19. pranith on Aug 30, 2011 at 12:53

    thank you very much ankur for sharing such nice tool which our work going to less by using this tool

    Reply
  20. Vivek Mishra on Aug 30, 2011 at 11:17

    Thanks Ankur for sharing this..This is really very good tool for our daily use purpose in office .

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  21. rajani on Aug 30, 2011 at 11:12

    good one to reduce our time spending on repetitive work

    thank u ankur

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  22. hemant on Aug 30, 2011 at 07:18

    This is a wonderful application which makes life easy. Thanks for sharing!!!

    Reply
  23. roopa on Aug 30, 2011 at 01:23

    wow.. nice one.. very informative..

    Reply

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