Chocolatey: One Command, Fifteen Apps, Zero Clicks You know the feeling. New Windows install. First, you grab Chrome. Then 7-Zip. Then Notepad++. And before you know it, you’ve spent 30 minutes chasing downloads, unchecking toolbars, clicking “Next” like a robot. Then someone tells you about Chocolatey.

You open PowerShell, type a single line, and watch your apps line up and install themselves like soldiers. No browsers. No pop-ups. No silent regrets.

Task Scheduler: The Old Utility That Still Holds Things Together You won’t find Task Scheduler on any “Top DevOps Tools” list. It doesn’t trend on Reddit. But it’s there — quietly ticking behind the scenes on nearly every Windows machine since XP. A silent operator. It’s not glamorous. But when something needs to launch at 3AM, check disk space, or run a cleanup script every Friday, Task Scheduler just gets it done. No agents, no downloads, no installs. It’s already part of the system.

SikuliX: When You Have to Automate a GUI With Nothing But Screenshots There are days when scripting just isn’t enough. The button has no API, the form doesn’t have an ID, and the vendor clearly never expected anyone to automate their software. That’s when SikuliX becomes your best — or last — option.

SikuliX works by visually scanning the screen for elements that look like what you want to click. You feed it screenshots, and it acts on them — clicks, types, waits. Like a robot staring at the sc

WinAutomation: When You Want Windows to Click, Type, and Think for Itself There comes a point when batch files and scheduled tasks just don’t cut it anymore. You need logic. Conditions. Error handling. Maybe even a little UI scraping. And no — PowerShell isn’t always the answer. That’s where WinAutomation steps in. Not as a script, but as a full-blown automation studio.

Built like a visual flowchart, it lets you automate pretty much anything: clicking through forms, moving files around, logging