The best way to automate tasks in windows

Question

The Mac has a built-in applescript program, and I found it worked pretty well for automation.

What are the best equivalent windows?

Answer 1

Perhaps PowerShell - but it is much more powerful than applescript. VBA exists only in certain applications that ship it, such as Excel, and not offline.

Answer 2

VBScript and JScript are standard Windows Script Host languages. See Microsoft Windows Script Technologies .

Answer 3

I discovered python when I went to the computer and was looking for something that would do everything that I usually did with applescript. As someone who has learned most of my programming skills using applescript, I got it very easily. Best of all, you can use it on any platform.

BTW applescript has been around a lot longer than OSX.

Answer 4

Powershell is a program to learn if you want to automate windows work. Microsoft condemns vbscript, which is part of the Windows Script Host, and pushes Powershell as a modern replacement for vbscript. For example, Microsoft is creating more and more APIs for Powershell. On the other hand, vbscript has a lot of similarities with vba, which is a standard program for automating Word, Excel and Outlook.