Automatically running a program at a specified time, then shuttingit down at a later time

[Pete]

I have an internet account with a fixed limit on how much I can download
per month, after which I have to pay by the megabyte. However, my ISP
discounts downloads between midnight and 8am by 75% - that is, if I
download 100 megs, only 25 megs is counted on my account during those times.

To take advantage of this discount, I'd like to postpone my larger
downloads until this discounted time. So, I'm looking for a freeware
program that can start a program like Shareaza, Azureus, or WinMX (or in
fact just about any program) at a few minutes after midnight, and shut
down the program a few minutes before 8am.

Does anyone have any suggestions for such a program?

Thanks, Peter

 

[3c273]

If you are on Win2k, (and probably any other Windows), just use the task
scheduler and on the settings tab check the box that says sotp the task
after x hours and x minutes. HTH.
Louis

 

[Rili]

Kana Reminder does this.

http://www.kana.homeip.net/index.php?doc=reminder&page=features

 

[Bubba Yarfkowitz]

Does anyone have any suggestions for such a program?

Thanks, Peter

Batchrun. Page is:

http://www.outertech.com/index.php?_charisma_page=product&id=1

Perfect for this. I use it for running scheduled programs and such...

 

[Pete]

Batchrun. Page is:

http://www.outertech.com/index.php?_charisma_page=product&id=1

Perfect for this. I use it for running scheduled programs and such...

I checked the web page, but it appears to me that this program is for
creating batch files. I can't see anything there that suggests that it
can run and terminate programs based on a user defined schedule.

Peter

 

[Pete]

Kana Reminder does this.

Thanks, Rili, but the web page doesn't say that this program can also
shut down a program.

Peter

 

[Bubba Yarfkowitz]

I checked the web page, but it appears to me that this program is for
creating batch files. I can't see anything there that suggests that it
can run and terminate programs based on a user defined schedule.

Peter

Peter,

I may be doing this the hard way but what I do is use Windows built-in
scheduler to start whatever program I'm trying to run, then create an
"end process" batch for that program in Batchrun. Then I use the
scheduler to run the batchfile to end the process whenever I want that to
happen.

It may be convoluted but it works like a charm.

Bubba

 

[jmatt]

See if any of these help , Peter .

A_ShutDown
http://members.aon.at/dfg/products/a_shutdown_e.htm

Freebyte Task Scheduler
http://www.freebyte.com/fbtaskscheduler/

M2 Launcher
http://download.com.com/3000-2344-8539716.html?tag=lst-0-7

nnCron LITE
http://www.pricelessware.org/thelist/biz.htm
http://newfreeware.com/utils/689/

Show Stopper
http://www.karenware.com/powertools/ptstopper.asp

Shutdown Machine
http://download.com.com/3000-2344-10138258.html?tag=lst-0-3

Slam
http://download.com.com/3000-2344-10133325.html?tag=lst-0-6

Tse's Startup Schedule Launcher
http://www.freewareweb.com/cgi-bin/archive.cgi?ID=1769
http://home.comcast.net/~tsecommon/creates.htm

Switch Off
http://www.nobucksfreeware.com/system.htm
http://yasoft.km.ru/eng/switchoff/

SOLWAY'S TASK SCHEDULER
http://www.theabsolute.net/sware/#tasksched

TMR
http://www.phatsoft.net/format.php?page=project.xsl&id=TMR

System Scheduler
http://www.splinterware.com/products/wincron.htm

WinScheduler
http://www.ee.bilkent.edu.tr/~microwave/programs/utilities/winscheduler.htm

X-ecutor
http://www.xpertdesign.de/english/
http://www.xpertdesign.de/english/sw_xecutor_info.htm

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