Tasks recorded in XP, playing in Vista

[marcgallant]

I recorded all my tasks on an XP computer, and have recently "upgraded" to Vista and alot of my mouse clicks are off by a bit. I know Vista has some border padding, but I put mine to 0 so I don't think it's that. I'm just wondering if anybody else had these issues and if they found a way to fix it without re-recording all my mouse clicks (currently have about 100 tasks recorded so I don't really want to redo them all).

[forumsupport]

Hello,

Using Automation Anywhere, you can perform mouse actions relative to window. Please follow the steps given below:
1) Double click on Mouse Click command.
2) Click on 'Advanced' button.
3) From 'Relative To' frame select option 'Window' and save the command.
4) Perform the above steps for every Mouse Click command in question.
5) Save the task and run it.

We recommend using more of keyboard short cuts instead of mouse clicks, as they are more reliable than mouse moves/clicks irrespective of change in screen resolution or window size. Mouse clicks/moves are subject to work on a screen resolution they were recorded on. However, keystrokes will work as expected no matter whatever screen resolution you set to. For e.g. Up/Down arrow key would work in a reliable way than using mouse to scroll in an excel sheet.

Hope that helps.