Here are some of my AutoIT programs:


 

XPE Shortcut Creator

Users of BartPE are probably familiar with the default menu (nu2menu). It's fine for getting the job done, but I found that Sherpya's XPE Plug-in makes BartPE look a lot more like Windows, because it adds a Start Menu and taskbar. It also allows for icons on the menu items.
There is a bundle of programs called Reatogo (how do you pronounce that?) that also provides an XPE shortcut creator. It looked nice, but didn't allow me to specify a different icon file from the shortcut target. It also has a nice looking skin on the UI... So what! It's a utility program. It's supposed to be USEFUL, not pretty!
My XPE Shortcut creator is less pretty, but allows for better functionality. It will verify that your icon file is actually in your plugin directory, and in your plugin .inf file. If there is no entry in the .inf file, you will be given a chance to add an entry.

Adwin

Adwin is a GUI interface to the MakeMeAdmin script written by Aaron Margosis. Adwin actually makes use of a modified version of Aaron'sscript to perform the following tasks (in order):

  1. Start a CMD session RunAs Administrator
  2. From the new CMD session, it adds the logged-in user to the Administrators group.
  3. Set the Administrator's "SeparateProcess" flag.
  4. Start a new CMD session as the user (now in the Administrators group).
  5. Launch selected commands.
  6. Remove user from Administrators group.


Adwin works similar to the MakeMeAdmin script, and has the following benefits:


SSActivate

SSActivate is a little program that runs in your system tray and can activate the screen saver when you move the mouse to a defined corner of the screen. It can also prevent the screen saver from activating, like while you are watching a video or presentation. It's written in AutoIt, so it's self-contained, has a useful GUI, and it saves it's settings to the registry, so there are no .INI files hanging around.


NWO (New Window Order)

When you work with a computer all day at a job, you get used to icons being in certain locations so you know exactly where to go to open them. This is easy to do for icons on your desktop, but buttons on your taskbar appear in the order that the programs were launched. If you close a program that was near the left of the taskbar, when you re-open it, it will appear on the right, and it throws off your whole order! The only other solution is to CLOSE all the programs and reopen them in the order that you want. That takes way too much time.

NWO will allow you to re-organize the buttons on your taskbar without closing and re-opening all those programs. It's small, lightweight, and works on All versions of Windows (even Windows 95).