Installing AutoIt3 Full Package

In this tutorial, we will download and install the full package of AutoIt3 scripting language. The first step is to visit the downloads page of AutoIt3 website from this link.


Scroll down the page till you find the full installation package of AutoIt3 as shown below. Note that the full installation packages includes more than one program that every program is used for a specific task.

After you click the download link of the full installation package of AutoIt3, the download dialog will display. Save it on your machine.

After the download finishes, let's install the tools of AutoIt3 scripting language. Double click on the downloaded setup file, and follow the next screenshots.

Congratulations, now AutoIt3 files are installed in your machine, and you are good to start learning how to program with it. Before this, let me briefly introduce to you the programs and files that came with AutoIt3 installation package, and the ones that we will use the most.

AutoIt3 is now added to your programs, so you can access it from the Start Menu.

1. Help file contains the documentation for AutoIt3 scripting language, and it contains examples that demonstrates how to use each function in AutoIt3
2. AutoIt3 Window Info is a useful tool that gives you information about program windows such as (title, text, controls, etc.), and you can use these information to make programing with AutoIt3 easier
3. This program checks for the latest updates of AutoIt3 and notify you about the latest beta version of AutoIt3
4. This is a shortcut for a program called Aut2Exe.exe that is used to convert AutoIt3 scripts (.au3) to executable files (.exe), so that you can run them without the need for AutoIt3 to be installed in a computer
5. Examples folder contains samples of AutoIt3 scripts that automate some tasks in your computer, plus this folder contains a script for every possible function in the whole scripting language (in Helpfile folder)
6. You can use this program to run any script. This program is automatically called when you double click on any .au3 script
7. This is the integrated editor with AutoIt3 files. It provides you with some features that make writing AutoIt3 scripts easier like auto-completion. Also, you can save and run the scripts that you are designing with this editor. Furthermore, it provides you with access to AutoIt3 help file and functions documentations