

All the AutoIt downloads are available at their Downloads page and we are interested in AutoIt Full Installation installer and AutoIt SciTE Script Editor. Also there is a self extracting archive (Download Zip option) which we do not use; but the installer.
AutoIt full installation contains both x86 and x64 components, AutoIt program files and help, Script to EXE converter, AutoItX (DLL/ COM control) and AutoIt Editor (A cut down version of the SciTE script editor). We will install the full AutoIt SciTE editor package to get a lot of interesting additional AutoIt tools. I will cover the details of each tool in a separate post. We will move to installation now.
Download Installers
- Download both AutoIt installer and AutoIt Script Editor
AutoIt Installation
- Run AutoIt installer - autoit-v3-setup.exe
- Confirm it, if it asks the message "Do you want to allow the following program to make changes to this computer?"
- Click "Next" button in welcome screen.
- Read the License Agreement and click "I Agree" to to continue with the installation.
- If the OS is 64 bit, it will ask for the x64 support configuration. We can select the recommended "Use x86 tools by default" option for compatibility.
- Next option is what should be the behavior when we double click a *.au3 file - Run or Edit. For easiness, we can select "Edit the script" option.
- Keep all the components selected by default in "Choose Components" window.
- Select the installation destination folder. There should not be any change most probably. Clicking the Install button will immediately start the installation.
- Setup will display completion window as shown below. Click Finish to close the window and we have completed the AutoIt installation!!!
AutoIt Script Editor Installation
- Run script editor installer - SciTE4AutoIt3.exe.
- Confirm it, if the OS asks for any messages on publisher or computer changes.
- Click "Next" button in welcome screen.
- Read the License Agreement and click "I Agree" to to continue with the installation. This will immediately start the installation.
- Setup will display completion window as shown below. Click "Finish" to close the window and we have completed the AutoIt Script Editor installation!!!
- AutoIt Hello World
- AutoIt Start menu options, basic tools and additional SciTE coding tools
- AutoIt Software License
- AutoIt Basics
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