Windows XP Task Scheduler - laptop not always on to execute scheduled tasks

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Joe Blo

I have a few tasks in Windows XP Scheduled Tasks that need to run once
a day and only once a day. The problem is if I don't have my laptop on
at the time of day they are set to run, they won't run at all that
day. Is there a way to have Windows XP run tasks that never executed
at their scheduled time, when I do again turn on my laptop? Thanks
 
Are you saying you want something to run in windows when no power is going
to the computer?

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Best of luck!

Michael D. Alligood
MCSA, MCP, CCNA, A+,
Network+, i-Net+, CIW A, CIW CI
 
Belay my last post please... I was doing two things at once.

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Best of luck!

Michael D. Alligood
MCSA, MCP, CCNA, A+,
Network+, i-Net+, CIW A, CIW CI
 
In the Scheduled Task window, you can click ADVANCED on the menu bar, then
select NOTIFY ME OF MISSED TASKS.

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Best of luck!

Michael D. Alligood
MCSA, MCP, CCNA, A+,
Network+, i-Net+, CIW A, CIW CI
 
Are you saying you want something to run in windows when no power is
going to the computer?
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You stupid, ****ing, top-posting, cuntheaded, pitiable, fen-sucked slob.
 
In the Scheduled Task window, you can click ADVANCED on the menu bar,
then select NOTIFY ME OF MISSED TASKS.
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You totally brain-dead retard. You complete and utter ****ing, worrying, frictionless lizard.
 
Joe Blo said:
I have a few tasks in Windows XP Scheduled Tasks that need to run once
a day and only once a day. The problem is if I don't have my laptop on
at the time of day they are set to run, they won't run at all that
day. Is there a way to have Windows XP run tasks that never executed
at their scheduled time, when I do again turn on my laptop? Thanks
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Frankly, what you are asking is silly. Can windows run scheduled tasks at
arbitrary times when I decide to have the computer on. I doubt there is any
provision for that.
 
Joe said:
I have a few tasks in Windows XP Scheduled Tasks that need to run once
a day and only once a day. The problem is if I don't have my laptop on
at the time of day they are set to run, they won't run at all that
day. Is there a way to have Windows XP run tasks that never executed
at their scheduled time, when I do again turn on my laptop? Thanks
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You have had three idiotic messages from some retard who likes to show off
his useless qualifications in his signature. Ignore the moron.

I am assuming that you don't want to manually execute the missed tasks.
So...

You are going to have to write a logon script to either interrogate the
scheduled tasks database, or monitor the contents of schedlgu.txt, located
in the Windows folder. Unless you know how to write code, it is not going to
be an easy job. Either Javascript or VBScript will do the job.

If you want an easy way out, at not too much expense, take a look here:
http://www.splinterware.com/products/wincron.htm

It claims to have a feature that will allow you to "Schedule Missed Events
to run on Startup/Logon". I assume that means missed events that were to be
generated by the application itself, rather than XP scheduled events. This
kind of application will often require you to redifine your tasks within the
application.
 
Scott said:
Frankly, what you are asking is silly.
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Frankly, what you are telling him is totally ****ed. Scrolling back through
your posts in aow-xp, it seems that at least you are consistent in that
regard.
 
Scott Freeman wrote:
|| ||| I have a few tasks in Windows XP Scheduled Tasks that need to run
||| once a day and only once a day. The problem is if I don't have my
||| laptop on at the time of day they are set to run, they won't run at
||| all that day. Is there a way to have Windows XP run tasks that
||| never executed at their scheduled time, when I do again turn on my
||| laptop? Thanks
||
|| Frankly, what you are asking is silly. Can windows run scheduled
|| tasks at arbitrary times when I decide to have the computer on. I
|| doubt there is any provision for that.

You only think it is silly because you can't think of any reason for
doing it.
Say you had a backup scheduled daily for 7PM after a days work and
you had to turn off the PC during that time. When you next turned on the PC
the task would not run as the time had passed, so you have to manually
run the task.
Computers are supposed to make things easier to manage so there should
be some way for scheduler to say 'hey this task has not run. Would you
like to run it now?' Windows appears to do similar things with Updater.

Marty
 
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