I need help in creating a VB Script which needs to open at a specific day and time. I need to avoid using Task Scheduler because, I will be sharing this VBS file to other users and the task has to be scheduled the first time the user runs this script.
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I am trying to execute a.bat file when my sessión closed. I cannot manage to make it. The set-up is as follows:
General
Execute either the session is open or closed
Execute with the highest priviledges
Triggers
Execute daily at specific time
Contitions
None
Thank you!
I tried almost every option. I just want that the .bat runs on unattended mode
I have a bat file which I run with an externally given parameter. It should run for about 6 hours and if the task is still not finished, the process should get killed. I can start the task using Task Scheduler but I'm not sure how to kill it once it reaches the set number of hours. Any idea how I can achieve this?
Thanks.
In Windows Task Scheduler use "Create Task" (not "Create Basic Task").
On the Settings screen there is the option labelled "Stop the task if it runs longer than:".
You can override the length of time.
i wanna to create a cron job on windows that daily delete files from a specific folder.
how can i do this??
Thanks in advance
Use Schedule tasks in windows. Check here. You can use del command to remove one or more files. Put it inside a batch script and schedule it as a task.
You want Scheduled Tasks.
With Scheduled Tasks, you can schedule
any script, program, or document to
run at a time that is most convenient
for you. Scheduled Tasks starts every
time that you start Windows XP and
runs in the background, and it starts
each task that you schedule at the
time that you specify when you create
the task.
Edit your question if you specifically need help with the deleting files bit, but typing in help del at a command prompt should tell you everything you need to know.
I use Cron for Windows, it's very easy to use if you are familiar with cron from *nix
I've created 2 tasks in Task Scheduler on my Vista PC start uTorrent at 2am then close uTorrent (and shutdown PC) at 7am. However i'd like to only like this task to run if I've clicked a shortcut - ideally show something in the tray as well if possible. But not sure how?
Thanks in advance!
I managed to to something like this myself in windows 7, should be the same in Vista.
To do what you want you could create a scheduled task that starts utorrent, another to close it later and another to then shut down the pc, all timed to run every day at 2am. You would then create a task that runs a batch file to delete the other tasks every time you boot up.
You will have exported the first three tasks as XML files just after you created them and saved them somewhere.
The key is that you then create a batch file that, upon double clicking will create the scheduled tasks by importing the XML files. This will cause the tasks to run as before and shut down your pc afterwards. Next time you boot up your machine the tasks are deleted again by the first batch file.
Read up on batch files (simple command propt commands in a file that run when clicked) and the command-line interface for scheduled tasks.
Type schtasks /? at the command promt for more info.
Hope that makes sense.
I wrote a script in Ruby. I'd like to run it every day at a certain time. How do you do that on a Windows XP system?
I poked around on the machine and discovered the "scheduled tasks" control panel, but it doesn't seem to have anything to do with running scripts, as far as I can tell from the options offered by the "wizard".
Scheduled Tasks. Sometimes, you have to make a batch file call the script, and schedule the batch.
say you have "script.vbs" you want to run, you will have to create this batch:
cscript script.vbs
cscript is the windows script host which interprets the vbs script. I'm sure ruby has something similar.
You can do it with scheduled tasks, just browse for the program or script you want to run if it isn't listed (in this case, the ruby interpreter I guess, and add the name of the script to run as an argument).
Use the Windows task scheduler.
Under Control Panel > Schedule Tasks.
You can set it up to run any application or file executable from the command line.
Update: (1/15/09)
A good point from Wouter van Nifterick, remember to take care that the process finishes before the next one runs (in comments).
This can be done by going into the advanced options and adjust the allowed amount of time the task may run.
If the task is already configured open it and click the Settings tab. At the top of this tab you will see a checkbox followed by 'Stop the task if it runs for:' then there are two text boxes to enter hours and minutes. If your script runs once a day you will want this set to 23 hours or so.
The 'at' command is a nice command line version of a scheduler.