Re: Task Scheduler with Same EXE (daing)

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On 12/18/2007 5:57 PM On a whim, AGP pounded out on the keyboard

Thanks for the tips guys. But the hitch isn that I need the GUI open
so that I can see what data was processed. This works just fine if I create
several different items, say one for each day. I get an instance of an application
per task. But that beats the automation since I would have to constantly revise it.
Ive also tried a batch file but that stays open until the GUI is closed,
which again I need displayed so that I can see what data was processed.

AGP



"Elmo" <elmogeek@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:%23mXOj6dQIHA.5016@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
AGP wrote:
My issue is fairly simple. I have a built an executable that runs a process. it does not accept any command line switches, it just runs a process every day at 2am. Well I built this into the task Scheduler to run every day at 2am. However I may be gone for several days and when I come back only the first task has been run and I can see the GUI is displayed on my desktop. Not until I close the GUI does the scheduler run the next schedule. How can I make it so that the same EXE gets run at 2am regardless if I close out the GUI or not. I just cant figure it out.

In the end what i need is if i am on vacation and gone for a week that the scheduler runs every day at 2am the same EXE and there will be 5 instances of my app displaying on the desktop.

AGP
If you ran the program from a batch file, you could possibly set it to close from there.. I don't know the details on how that'd be done though.

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The issue isn't with the scheduler, it's with your program. It can't run multiple instances. Can you pipe the output to a text file (say with the current days date) and then have it close?

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Terry R.

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