The previous page mentioned there are several types of actions you can perform through Hot Keyboard. If you're a novice Windows user we would like to introduce these actions now. Each action can be assigned to a hot key or scheduled to be executed at any time you want.
| Action Type | Description | Related Links |
| Paste text | This action type allows you to paste text directly into applications and/or emulate keystrokes. In addition, it is possible to include date/time stamps, entire text files, special symbols and more. |
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| Record/Play keystrokes | Records a sequence of keystrokes to play them back whenever you need to. |
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| Execute a program | Runs a specified program. You can run a software application or execute a file to view or edit in an associated application. |
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| Window manipulations | You can close, activate, minimize, maximize, set the position of your windows and even start the screen saver. |
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| Menu | Menus are very useful for grouping and organizing your macros. They also let you execute a macro without having to assign a hot key to it, providing a tremendous number of macros. |
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| Open a folder | Opens a Windows folder. In addition to common folders, this action opens specific system folders such as "Control panel", "My Computer", "Network Neighborhood", etc. |
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| Sound Volume Control | Controls the sound volume of your computer. Increase loudness or mute through one key press. You can even set separate hot keys to control the CD player volume as well as any other of your music devices. |
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| Autoreplace text | Expands a short string to a whole text. For example, you can set the string "addr" to be expanded to your postal address when you type it in a text editor or email message. |
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| Dial-up networking | Starts dialup service to establish an internet connection. |
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| Launch web browser | Launches web browser with a specified address (URL) to open. |
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| Shutdown Windows | In addition to a simple shutdown this action type lets you restart the computer and log on as a different user. |
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| CD Player | Play, stop, eject, fast forward, rewind your computer's CD Player with this action type. |
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| Reminder | This action type lets you create reminders, messages that appear at specific times you set. Please note: the reminder is a specific action type. It could be activated by its own hot key, but there is no need to do this because the reminder message will pop up automatically at the time you specify for it. |
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| SmartAdd | SmartAdd is an "Internal" action type which provides a fast and convenient way to create a macro. For example, you can highlight some text, in any Windows application where text can be highlighted, press a hot key and a new macro using the selected text is created. This can be done for each of the text related action types such as: paste text, launch web browser, execute a program and reminder. |
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