What's new

An emergency stop

Esc still stops a job, as before. Now there's a stronger stop for when a job seems stuck: press Pause/Break, or Ctrl+Alt+Esc on keyboards without a Pause key.

• It stops everything the job is doing.
• It lets go of any key or mouse button the job was holding down.
• It ends programs the job started that are still running.

It works even when the Routinewheel window is closed, and the rest of the time the Pause key works as usual.

A redrawn keyboard

• Three layouts. Pick Laptop, 60% or Desk keyboard on the Keyboard page.
• New 60% layout for small keyboards with no function row, arrows or number pad. The keys you reach with Fn are shown small on each key.
• Keys line up the way they do on a real keyboard, and the laptop layout now has a Down arrow you can give a job.
• Labels always fit, even in a small window, and it remembers the layout you picked.

Safer by default

• Terms of Use. The first time a job runs, Routinewheel asks you to agree to the Terms of Use. They're also in the download.
• A one-time “I understand”. A job that sends email by itself, or deletes files, checks with you once before it runs.
• Deleted files go to the Recycle Bin, so you can get them back.

Smoother everyday use

• Many small fixes from testing: recording, playback, windows that move between screens, saving in Excel and the help answers.
• Routinewheel talks to itself over its own private connection on your PC, so it doesn't clash with other programs.
• Plainer wording and everyday examples in the help and the ready-made jobs.

Routinewheel Pro is still included

Pro adds the two “let it run by itself” extras: running a job on a schedule, and After this, run… to chain jobs one after another. In the Microsoft Store it will be a one-time add-on. The early-access download from this site includes it, free.

Coming to Mac

A Mac version is in the works. There's no date yet.

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