Update [June 1st, 9 am Brazil time (GMT-3)]: There's a follow-up post to this one with major updates to the idea below, thanks to all the great commenters on Lifehacker. Read the following post and continue to the major update post.Update [May 26th, 4 pm Brazil time (GMT-3)]: This post has just been featured on Lifehacker, my favorite website of all times! Check out the post by Whitson Gordon at http://lifehacker.com/5547714/launch-applications-remotely-with-dropbox-and-autohotkeyThis tutorial will use Autohotkey and Dropbox. If you don't use them, you really should.The remote computer has to be a Windows -- your local OS doesn't really matter.Tutorial by Cesar Brasil, of http://brasildeluna.blogspot.com and http://twitter.com/brasildelunaClick here to download the Autohotkey script mentioned below.Last night, on a Sunday evening, I had a 700 Mb file to download, which I needed to bring to work this Monday morning. For many reasons, this not-so-huge file took several hours to download, instead of the 1-hour maximum I had first imagined. It actually took so long that when I woke up, 6 hours later, it was still about only 85% done.'Well...' - I thought - 'No harm done. I'll just head to work, log into LogMeIn in a couple of hours, put that file in My Dropbox folder and thereyago!'. I can only imagine the look on my face when I realized I had closed LogMeIn earlier on Sunday to free up some RAM. Meanwhile, my PC was on at home with no one else there to help me out.And so, in times of trouble, I came up with a very, very simple, how-didn't-anyone-think-of-this-before simple solution to start LogMeIn remotely. Not the best, I'm sure, but dead simple.First, I coded an Autohotkey script such as this:Loop{Sleep, 300000Reload}Basically, all it does is reload itself every five minutes (5 x 60 seconds x 1000 milliseconds). However, if you add commands before the Loop, that means that in a maximum of 5 minutes the script will reload and perform that action. In the example below, I'm telling it to load LogMeIn.Run, C:\Program Files\LogMeIn\x86\LogMeIn.exeLoop{Sleep, 300000Reload}A very important thing to remember is that you absolutely must remove this action after five minutes and save it again, thus overwriting the script, otherwise it will keep trying to open LogMeIn (or perform any action of your choosing) every five minutes, right after it reloads. Another option, and one I think is very practical, is just adding ';' before the command line. Autohotkey-savvy peeps know that it does not read anything after ';'. This way, you can keep a list of actions to run and just remove the ';' and save whenever you want it to take place. After five minutes (or the amount of time of your choosing) just place the ';' before that line once again and overwrite the file.;Run, C:\Program Files\LogMeIn\x86\LogMeIn.exe;Run, http://www.twitter.com/brasildeluna;Run, F:\Dropbox\My Dropbox\makefilelist.bat;Run, F:\Dropbox\My Dropbox\Note to mom.txt;MsgBox, Mom, please call me right away, I forgot our home number again!Loop{Sleep, 300000Reload}Now, all you have to do is place this script into My Dropbox folder, and it will be on your home computer in no time.Last, but certainly not least, the script