Reduce number of key clicks: QuicKeys

If there are several actions on your computer that you do on a regular basis and they take several steps to complete, at some point, there will be a lot of irritation about the time spent on doing these steps. It could be as simple as doing an operation that involved clicking on the start menu, then clicking on Programs, then launching notepad, then launching a browser, going to a web site, copying information, pasting in notepad. Now imagine you have a software that can do operations like these with a single click, and do this for many other such key combinations. Would it not be a useful software to have ?
Well, then welcome to QuicKeys for Windows. It is slightly expensive, but is extremely useful and will pay for itself many times over in terms of saved time, convenience and reduced irritation. A trial version is available at this link.

Some of the features of this software are:
Triggers: hot keys, toolbars, timers & quickeys menu
• Use hot keys, which can be virtually any key combination, to trigger your QuicKeys shortcuts.
• Hot Key Chaining lets users string a series of hot keys together allowing for virtually an unlimited number of hot key triggering key combinations. For example use F1->I->E to launch Internet Explorer and F1->E->M to launch your e-mail application.
• Create toolbars that contain buttons for any or all of your shortcuts. Like other triggers, toolbars can be for all applications or application specific (the toolbar will only appear when the specified application is open).
• Set timers to activate shortcuts at a specified time on any day of the week. Timed triggers can repeat at an interval which you define.
• Launch shortcuts, view your QuickReference Card (a listing of all of your shortcuts) and open the QuicKeys Editor from the QuicKeys menu.
• Use Event Triggers to launch actions and sequences when programs start, shutdown, gain focus or lose focus.
• With the recording feature, QuicKeys will watch and record your actions so you can play them back at any time. This feature is great for quickly automating longer, multi-step tasks.
• Transfer your shortcuts to another computer or user. Great for utilizing the same shortcuts on multiple computers or for sharing your favorite shortcuts with friends or co-workers.
• By sharing and connecting to Action Folders, QuicKeys users can easily benefit from actions and sequences created by others giving a whole office the ability to be efficient together. Plus, any changes made to these Action Folders will be updated for each QuicKeys user automatically whenever QuicKeys is launched or refreshed.

For the entire rich feature list, refer to this feature page