avoid typing the same text again and again (ID, password, phone, homepage link, address, ...) in the messages, documents, web forms stop wasting your time on mouse movements searching for an application in a cascade of menus and folders keep your desktop clean (photo of your dog looks better than 100 icons)
control computer sounds instantly from any app (somebody's calling? mute music!) open favorite web pages with a single hotkey press build a sequence of actions and execute it with a shortcut record keystrokes and play them back with a single hotkey press keep the same hotkeys on different computers with import/export feature
shut down the computer at the specified time (Windows
95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP are supported)