Automate Enabling and Disabling IE Proxy settings

When I work from home, I connect to the corporate network over the VPN and need to use the corporate proxy server. When I’m not working, I do not need to go through the proxy. Similarly, when I need to connect to my Wireless router at home, I do not need proxy. It was getting cumbersome each time to manually turn on/off these IE settings. So I decided to automate this.

Automate repetitive tasks using AHK

I have been a big supporter of automation where possible. I was reading about how “ActiveWords” was the best piece of software, and that is when I became aware of AutoHotKey, or AHK as it is fondly called. I learned more about AHK on LifeHacker