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Creating a 'macro' ( or .exe file? ) in Windows 7 Ultimate
Hello,
Not 100% sure if this is the right place for this question, or even whether it's a silly question, but here goes:
In the course of doing backups, I perform the following sequence of events:
- Plug in external hard drive
- Open 'My Computer'
- Quick-format external hard drive
- Open external hard drive
- On external hard drive, create four new empty folders with pre-determined names
My first question is: is it possible to create a 'macro', in effect, which will do all of this in a single instruction ( ideally a keyboard instruction rather than a mouse-click - not a big mouse fan! )?
The names of the folders contain the date on which the backup is being done, hence, after creating them, I then have to manually change the part of the folder name relating to the current date. Is there any way to include this in the shortcut procedure above ( so that, for example, New Folder 1 was automatically named 'MyName Studio Backup - Today'sDate'?
Last but not least, is it possible, either as part of the same 'macro' or by creation of a separate one, to copy specific folders from the C drive into the newly-created backup folders, where the folders being copied do not all live in the same parent folder ( except in the sense that they're all on the C drive )?
I suspect that if there is in fact a solution to this, it probably exists at a level of DOS programming that may be beyond my knowledge, hence, possibly, making it more complicated and time-consuming to create the 'macro' ( or .exe file? ) than to simply do the job long-hand. I'd be interested to hear the thoughts of those more knowledgeable than me, however, which will most likely include many of the people reading this.
As I say, I don't know if this is the right place for this kind of question; if not, perhaps the moderator would be kind enough to move it to it's appropriate home?
Other than that, thanks for any help that might be forthcoming.
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