History

October, 1998: Jon was working on a project to automate installation of Windows NT 4 for a company, Jon had difficulties with installing some components which don't take parameters from external programs, so Jon was searching for a program which can force click buttons and he found Microsoft ScriptIt but Jon found that it was extremely unreliable.... Jon said:

"It was notoriously fussy about the speed of the machine it was used on and had no way to control the key delays between keystrokes. Another feature that caused problems was that there was no way to specify a working directory when running a program which caused loads of problems with many of the applications I was scripting. Also, some of the functions didn't work under NT 5 beta (i.e. Windows 2000)".


25 December, 1998: Jon decided to make a program (AutoIt v1) in C as a better alternative to Microsoft ScriptIt.