Reminder Utility Needed

[Marek Williams]

This is gonna sound stupid.

I need to take meds every night at 10:00, +/- 15 minutes or so. I keep
forgetting. At that time of night I am almost always at this computer.
I need something that will blast a popup in my face at 10:00 pm.

I looked at Control Panel > Scheduled Tasks. But that is just for
running programs. I don't want to run a program. I found a Windows
calendar thing in this Windows 2000 installation, but it is far too
complex, designed for office workers who need to keep a day-timer
appointment schedule.

Then I googled and found a number of possibilities, But all were
either way too complex or cost a lot of money or were useless. Or the
URL was broken and the utility was no longer available.

Does anyone know of a SIMPLE little program that will pop up a window
in my face every night at 10 pm? Or a way to accomplis that in a
bog-standard Windows 2000 single-user installation?

 

[Jerold Schulman]

This is gonna sound stupid.

I need to take meds every night at 10:00, +/- 15 minutes or so. I keep
forgetting. At that time of night I am almost always at this computer.
I need something that will blast a popup in my face at 10:00 pm.

I looked at Control Panel > Scheduled Tasks. But that is just for
running programs. I don't want to run a program. I found a Windows
calendar thing in this Windows 2000 installation, but it is far too
complex, designed for office workers who need to keep a day-timer
appointment schedule.

Then I googled and found a number of possibilities, But all were
either way too complex or cost a lot of money or were useless. Or the
URL was broken and the utility was no longer available.

Does anyone know of a SIMPLE little program that will pop up a window
in my face every night at 10 pm? Or a way to accomplis that in a
bog-standard Windows 2000 single-user installation?

Save the following at MyMeds.bat and schedule it to run at 22:00

@echo off
net send %ComputerName% "Take your medicine now!"