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Small AutoIt utility scripts, such as WhyNotWin11 and other applets by similar users using AutoIt to make VB6-era -esq programs. These are always neither motivated by lofty architectural goals to “do things correctly” of many collaborative open source projects that forgot about laymen-ergonomics entirely, nor user-acquisition driven dark-pattern minefields of sluggish eye candy entirely focused on exploiting the aforementioned laymen-approachability, instead just being small-scope, pragmatic UX solutions to solve minuscule pain-/friction-points in interacting with Windows that are too fragmented to be part of some overarching software utility. They replace the typical SEO shovelware web app/adware that you get when searching on Google for “how do you do X on windows” that sends you to some factory-stamped installshield executable which does nothing more than passing command line arguments to some existing open-source CLI software that neglected laymen-usability.


https://www.autoitscript.com/site/autoit/ says "AutoIt v3 is a freeware BASIC-like scripting language" and https://www.autoitscript.com/site/code/ just has " Here are some C++ source code samples from various projects of mine. Most are free to use but check any license files that accompany the downloads for details."

However, while trying to dig up the repo I did find https://github.com/J2TEAM/awesome-AutoIt#awesome-autoit that may interest the same audience




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