As soon as I saw: "Sending Key Events To Notepad" I simply thought AutoIt and moved on. There is no denying how cool the end result is but input to any Windows

As soon as I saw: "Sending Key Events To Notepad" I simply thought AutoIt and moved on. There is no denying how cool the end result is but input to any Windows thingie can be scripted with AutoIt in a nice easy way with a very expressive, BASIC style language that has existed for decades. You can get it to churn out a self contained .exe. I don't know why Windows sysadmins piss around with anything less for most tasks on an OS that needs a GUI. You can always call into or out of PS/cmd or whatever as needed.