Regular executions of things under Windows?

[philg]

I know this sounds like a DOS question (showing my age there) but is there any way to get a .bat file executed at a certain time of day according to a schedule

Sort of "run this every Monday at 10am"??

Cheers

Phil G

[another-view]

Yes, you can run this under "scheduled tasks" in your control panel.

[philg]

Brilliant - I never knew that was there

Mind you, I can't find a log of whether my task has run or not - does Windows have a scheduled task log somewhere?

Thanks

[another-view]

The only thing I can find is that it says when it last run and the outcome. You would have to get it to write a log in your .bat

[another-view]

...or possibly under "event viewer"?

[philg]

This looked so close to what I wanted BUT

I am the only user of this laptop, so I use the built-in Administrator account - without a password

When I create a scheduled task, Windows REQUIRES a user AND a password - and won't accept a blank

If I create a new user, just to run my scheduled tasks, I am now prompted to log in when I boot my pc - This is a pain

SO, modifying my original question

How can I schedule a task to run under a Windows ID that doesn't have a password??

Thanks

[philg]

Oh, and where were you seeing the "last run" time?

[Vagrant]

It needs a registry hack to achieve it. I did it a few years ago for XP - can't remember exactly how, but something similar to this:

http://www.vas.com/Tn...ssword%20problems.htm

[philg]

PERFECT

And I am XP Pro, so it was an administrative setting NOT a registry hack

Many thanks

[bibblebub]

The free version of System Scheduler http://www.splinterwa.../products/wincron.htm will do it (but not the friendliest of interfaces)