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windows schedule command to run regularly
I apologize if this has been covered elsewhere or even in the MS docs, but I haven't found my answer yet.
I have a program on my PATH, lets call it myprog.exe.
All I want to do is configure my ...
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Find out what is starting firefox on windows starup [duplicate]
Something set up firefox on windows machine to start and go to certain url as user logins into system.
In process explorer I see, that Firefox is started as "firefox.exe -osint -url "somenastything" ...
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How to run window-less scheduled task
I've got the following command running as scheduled task in Windows 8
cmd /C copy /Y nul B:\keepalive.txt
However, when it runs it opens the command prompt window for fraction of second, and that's ...
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Wake screen after scheduled task wakes computer
Trying to create an alarm of sorts.
Task runs fine, computer wakes up from sleep fine, but the screen's black till there's user input.
Anyway I can get the screen to light up upon waking?
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Automated git pull on Windows 8 as system
I have installed msysgit for windows 8. I am attempting to automate a git pull every 5 minutes. I am using scheduled tasks to run a script I wrote. The schedule task's action is:
powershell -...
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Windows 8 "Task Scheduler service is not available"
I'm having problems keeping my Windows 8 clock synced so I'm trying to regularly resync with an every-5-minutes schedule trigger.
When I go into the Windows 8 task scheduler through the ...
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How can I make Windows 8 scheduler to run something once when the computer is idle but then wait for at least 12 hours in order to do the same?
I noticed that choosing the option to run only when it is idle and then to repeat the task indefinitely every 12 hours,
i.e.:
, did not do what I intended since it basically reset its 12h counter ...
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