April 19, 2020

How to automate day to day tasks on your computer (Part 1)

In this fast paced world, it is really important to do multitasking specially when you are on your computer. A computer may take its own time in processing the information, while you may work on some other.
This way you could run multiple task parallelly, best example for this would be while your code is building you could write that important status email, or while that awesome video that you captured and edited is rendering, you could think of your next million view title.

So lets get started, this would be a series where we would be going by parts as this will involve lots of complex and easy activities.

Automate startup of your apps and initial setup.

1. The first thing you do after logging in your computer is start all those important apps in your computer, lets say you are a gamer, you want all those apps to be started saving you important minutes to jump on that all important mission of yours in the game.
Opening your gaming apps like Steam, Origin, Battle.net, chrome, logging into sites and all those important recording apps right?
This is just for gaming, imagine working as a software developer or a tester and having all those tools and apps manually start, tough right?

There is a very easy solution to this, it is as below:
1. Add your apps to windows startup.

  • Select the Start Windows logo Start button button, then select Settings Gear-shaped Settings icon > Apps > Startup. Make sure any app you want to run at startup is turned On
  • If you don’t see the Startup option in Settings, right-click the Start Windows logo Start button button, select Task Manager, then select the Startup tab. (If you don’t see the Startup tab, select More details.) Select the app you want to change, then select Enable to run it at startup or Disable so it doesn’t run. Watch the video to see how to do it. 

  • In Windows 10, in the search box, type "Startup" and click startup apps, you should see this window:
  • Verify whether your app is visible in here.
Windows startup apps window
Windows startup apps window
2. These next step would be making your username and password to be remembered by the app, so that you don't have to manually put it in every-time.

3. For security purposes I will recommend you not to do this for apps that requires high security like banking apps, financial etc.

There are more things to come in the part 2, so it would be another week till you see it.