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IVB
09-10-2006, 07:56 PM
Anyone know of any decent tasks schedulers, and NOT the microsoft one? My biggest issue with the windows one is that it only lets you run things 1x/day, there's some stuff that I'd want to run many times/day on one of the HA machines i've got going here.

I don't need some bigtime thing, just a basic scheduler that lets me automate tasks more than 1/x day.
Ripper
09-10-2006, 09:29 PM
Woudl something that does macros be the same? I used this a couple of years ago before I switched to a more powerful solution for work but it works good for many things.

http://www.macros.com/

*I scheduled macros in this to do things at certain times on another pc..it worked fine for almost a year and ran reliably and then I switched to Automate

Here is a full feature list

http://www.macros.com/download/macroexp.pdf
Ripper
09-10-2006, 09:30 PM
Would something that does macros be the same? I used this a couple of years ago before I switched to a more powerful solution for work but it works good for many things.

http://www.macros.com/

*I use to use scheduled macros in this to do things at certain times on another pc..it worked fine for almost a year and ran reliably and then I switched to Automate

Here is a full feature list

http://www.macros.com/download/macroexp.pdf
bph
09-10-2006, 10:01 PM
Anyone know of any decent tasks schedulers, and NOT the microsoft one? My biggest issue with the windows one is that it only lets you run things 1x/day, there's some stuff that I'd want to run many times/day on one of the HA machines i've got going here.

I don't need some bigtime thing, just a basic scheduler that lets me automate tasks more than 1/x day.

Ok, so the helpfile sucks.

Turn on this checkbox:
http://www.boomalator.com/schtask1.png

Then turn on the advanced settings like this:
http://www.boomalator.com/schtask2.png

You can also type schtasks /create /? to get the full syntax from the command line.
IVB
09-11-2006, 12:02 AM
The appropriate response is either:

1) Outstanding! Thanks!

or

2) Outstanding, thanks, and my god am I an idiot for not clicking that advanced button.

Either way, outstanding and thanks.