Soon. Record and playback is not in the app yet. This page describes how it will work.
Recording and playing back
- Open the Record & Playback window. Press Record & Playback in the main window. A second small window opens. It has a green button to play, a red button to record, and a line of text that says what it is doing.
- Press the red button to record. Or press Ctrl+3. Recording starts at once, with no countdown. The line reads "Recording. Press Ctrl+3 to finish."
- Do your clicks. Click as you normally would. Your clicks still reach the other programs while Auto Clicker records.
- Press Ctrl+3 to stop recording. Or press the red button again, which now shows a square. The line then says what was kept, for example "Recorded: 3 clicks, 5 seconds."
- Press the green button to play. Or press Ctrl+1. The pointer moves by itself and clicks where you clicked. Press Ctrl+1 again, or the square, to stop it.
Ctrl+1 and Ctrl+3 work only while the Record & Playback window is open. It can be minimised. To change these two keys, open Options, Settings, Hotkeys in that window.
To play the recording more than once, or faster or slower, see Repeating a playback.
What a recording keeps
- Auto Clicker keeps one recording, and it is still there after a restart. A new recording takes its place only if something was recorded.
- Ending with Ctrl+3 keeps the whole recording. Ending with the mouse leaves out the trip to the square button at the end.
- Three choices in Options, Recording, Options say what is kept: Mouse click, Mouse move and Delay. All three are ticked at first. They apply to the next recording.
- A recording stops by itself after 60 minutes.
- The keyboard, the mouse wheel and the extra buttons some mice have are never recorded. Clicks on Auto Clicker's own windows are not recorded either.
- A playback clicks the same places on the screen. If a window has moved or closed since you recorded, the clicks land on whatever is there now.
Repeating a playback
A recording can play once, a set number of times, or until you stop it, with a wait between each time if you want one.
How many times
- Open the Repeat box. In the Record & Playback window, choose Options, Playback, Repeat. A box called "Repeat setting" opens.
- Choose how many times. Choose Repeat and enter a number from 1 to 9,999,999. Or choose Repeat until stopped.
- Press Ok. Ok saves your choice. Cancel or Esc changes nothing.
The number counts whole times through the recording. It is 1 at first. While a playback runs, the line in the Record & Playback window shows where it is, for example "Playing: pass 2 of 5. Press Ctrl+1 to stop."
With Repeat until stopped, the playback goes on until you stop it. Press Ctrl+1, press the square button, or choose Stop playback from the icon by the clock. Ctrl+1 is the easiest, because the pointer is busy moving by itself.
A wait between repeats
In the same box, tick Interval: and enter the wait in hours, mins and secs. Auto Clicker then waits that long after each time through the recording, before the next one.
- The wait can be from 1 second to 24 hours. An empty box counts as 0.
- There is no wait after the last time.
- When Interval: is not ticked, the next time starts straight away.
- Ctrl+1 also stops a playback during the wait.
The speed of a playback
Choose Options, Playback, Speed. Move the slider and press Ok. There are seven speeds: ¼×, ½×, ¾×, 1×, 2×, 3× and 4×. 1× plays at the speed you recorded, and it is where the slider starts.
- At 2×, the pauses between your clicks are half as long. At ½×, they are twice as long.
- The speed does not change the wait between repeats.
- A recording made with Delay unticked keeps no pauses, so its clicks follow one another with only a short gap.
When a playback has finished
Auto Clicker can do something when a playback has played its last time. Choose Options, Settings, Other and pick an entry in On playback complete: Do nothing, Quit, Lock computer, Sign out, Shut down, Sleep or Hibernate. It is Do nothing at first.
- It happens only when the playback finishes by itself. It doesn't happen when you stop the playback, or with Repeat until stopped.
- Before it locks, signs out, shuts down, sleeps or hibernates, a small window counts down ten seconds. Press Cancel there to call it off.
New to recording? Start with Recording and playing back.
Every way to stop
- The hotkey. F6 stops the clicking, Ctrl+1 stops a playback and Ctrl+3 ends a recording. They work from any program, so you don't need the mouse.
- The buttons. Stop (F6) in the main window, or the square in the Record & Playback window.
- The icon by the clock. Right-click it and choose Stop clicking, Stop recording or Stop playback. Quit stops everything and closes Auto Clicker. On Windows 11 the icon may be behind the small arrow beside the clock.
Something doesn't work? See Why can't I record or play back?
Why can't I record or play back?
Most of the time it is one of four things. Each has something you can do about it.
A program that runs as administrator
Windows doesn't let an ordinary program click inside a program that runs as administrator. Auto Clicker never asks for administrator rights, so in such a program:
- your clicks are not recorded;
- a playback can't click;
- the clicking of the main window does nothing.
Auto Clicker shows no message when this happens.
What to do: if the program doesn't need administrator rights, close it and open it the usual way, without "Run as administrator".
A hotkey another program has
Windows gives each hotkey to one program at a time. If another program already has one of Auto Clicker's, you see a message such as "Ctrl+1 is being used by another program. Choose a different hotkey."
- Without its hotkey, no playback begins and no clicking starts. That way you always have a key that stops them.
- Without the hotkey for recording, the red button still records.
What to do: choose a different hotkey.
- Open the hotkey box. For F6, press Hotkey setting in the main window. For Ctrl+1 and Ctrl+3, choose Options, Settings, Hotkeys in the Record & Playback window.
- Press the button of the row. Start / Stop is for clicking, Playback/Stop for playback and Record/Stop for recording. The box beside it reads "Press a key".
- Press the new key. Use a function key, such as F7, or hold Ctrl or Alt with a letter or a digit. F12 can't be used: Windows keeps it.
- Press Ok. The new key works at once. If it is taken too, a message says so and your old key stays. Try another one.
It works the other way too. While the Record & Playback window is open, even minimised, Ctrl+1 and Ctrl+3 belong to Auto Clicker and don't work in your other programs. Close that window when you don't need it, or choose other keys.
Auto Clicker's own windows
Auto Clicker is made never to click its own windows.
- A click on one of its windows, or on its icon by the clock, is not recorded.
- During a playback, a click whose place is under one of its windows is not sent.
- While the pointer is over one of its windows, the clicking of the main window sends no clicks.
What to do: move the two windows of Auto Clicker away from where you click. Or let them get out of the way by themselves: in the Record & Playback window, choose Options, Settings, View, and tick Minimized when playing, Minimized when recording, or both. Both windows are then minimised as a playback or a recording begins, and come back when it ends.
Windows blocks the clicks
On some of its own screens, such as the lock screen and the screen that Ctrl+Alt+Del opens, Windows doesn't let any program click. When Windows refuses a click, Auto Clicker stops clicking or playing, and you see "Windows blocked the clicks, so Auto Clicker stopped."
What to do: unlock the PC and start again. Auto Clicker can't click while the PC is locked or asleep. If your PC locks or sleeps by itself while you leave Auto Clicker running, look at when Windows turns off the screen and sleeps, in its power settings.
If a recording can't start, you see "Windows did not let Auto Clicker record the mouse." Try again. If it keeps happening, tell us.
Other messages and greyed-out buttons
"Nothing is recorded yet. Press the red button to record first." There is no recording to play. Make one first: see Recording and playing back.
"A click in this recording is no longer on any screen. Record it again." A screen was unplugged or changed since you recorded, so a click would land nowhere. Record it again on the screens you have now.
"No click was recorded, so your earlier recording is kept." The new recording held no click, so Auto Clicker kept the old one. To record pointer movement alone, untick Mouse click in Options, Recording, Options.
"Tick Mouse click, Mouse move, or both." A recording must keep clicks, movement, or both.
A button is greyed out. Auto Clicker does one thing at a time: clicking, recording or playing. While one runs, the buttons that would start another are greyed out. Stop it first. The green button is also greyed out while nothing is recorded.
A hotkey does nothing. Ctrl+1 and Ctrl+3 work only while the Record & Playback window is open. Nothing starts while one of Auto Clicker's boxes is open either.
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