PTFB Pro

This is a Macro recorder, mouse auto-clicker and program monitor for automating repetitive tasks and handling confirmation screens and other windows that interrupt your workflow.

Pros: With Windows applications, several screens come up that need a response in terms of clicking one button or another. The application keeps waiting until that is done. PTFB Pro offers an elegant, easy to use solution to many of the irritations and interruptions that happens this way to Windows users. It will quickly and discretely answer confirmation requests that interrupt your workflow, monitor and alter the status of running applications and automate repetitive tasks.

First step is to teach the program how to respond. This is done by clicking the appropriate response with this application running on the tray and set to the “single press” mode”. As long as the program runs, any time else same response is required, the right button will get pushed automatically. This happens even if the screen size or placement is changed. For more complex, more than a single click sequence of events, the teaching is via the “create a macro” state. Mouse clicks are done in the desired order and the application learns and applies it from the next time automatically.

Program Monitor Macros allow you to create "program monitor" or "progmon" items. These periodically check to see if a particular program is currently running on your system. Depending on how you`ve set them up, they`ll either launch the target program if it isn`t running, restart it, or close/kill the program if it is running. A wizard comes up on selecting the creation of a “program monitor state” and you set up the macro.

Cons: Nothing adverse noticed.

Overall: A useful application that serves some of useful purposes, particularly problems that has a lot of nuisance value, this is good for a 4 star level.

A clear leader in its field since its release in 1997, PTFB Pro (Originally "Push the Freakin' Button') has continuously evolved to stay abreast of current applications, operating systems and features requested by users. PTFB Pro auto-clicker and macro recorder offers an elegant, easy to use solution to many of the irritations and interruptions that plague Windows users. It will quickly and discretely answer confirmation requests and prompts that interrupt your workflow, monitor and alter the status of running applications and automate repetitive tasks. It's handy and simple to use for the home user or computer novice, yet for the power user it has the features needed in a professional environment and will even notify you when it takes action on your behalf.
PTFB Pro auto-clicker is the perfect tool for getting rid of your computer's nagging requests to check for updates, to change your default browser, and to make sure it's “OK” to do the very thing you've just told it to do. It is, in effect, a “don't show this again” option for the many prompts and messages that don't have one. Just tell it what buttons to press and when and you'll never be bothered again.
In addition to its nuisance suppression role, PTFB Pro has an inbuilt macro recorder and editor. This can record and playback complex sequences of mouse and keyboard actions, allowing you to quickly cut long repetitive tasks down to size. Macros can be tied to the scheduler, to the appearance of a certain window, or to a hotkey combination of your choice. You can also trigger PTFB Pro macros from the command line, allowing other programs and scripts to determine when they run. For the security-conscious, PTFB Pro provides facilities for restricting macro viewing and editing, and if necessary access to the entire program can be password protected.