SchedTasks evey 5 mins always

[Rick Csucsai]

I have a task that I need to run every five minutes. I am using task manager
to do this. However, in the advanced properties of the schedule, you are
limited to how many hours it will continue to do this. In this case, the
most you can go is 1000 hrs and 59 mins which is about 42 days. I want this
to keep running evey five minutes for ever basically! It is a VB executable
that checks for the presence of a file and acts upon whether or not it finds
the file. Anyone know how I can make this happen??

Thanks
Rick

 

[tlviewer]

I have a task that I need to run every five minutes. I am using task manager
to do this. However, in the advanced properties of the schedule, you are
limited to how many hours it will continue to do this. In this case, the
most you can go is 1000 hrs and 59 mins which is about 42 days. I want this
to keep running evey five minutes for ever basically! It is a VB executable
that checks for the presence of a file and acts upon whether or not it finds
the file. Anyone know how I can make this happen??

Thanks
Rick

When you repeat the task, there are two choices for [Until:]
you seem to using [time:], where you'd be better off
using [duration:]. See this screen shot

http://4.11.211.97/Repeat5.png

 

[Rick Csucsai]

That is kinda the problem. I am using the duration, but the most you can
enter in there is 1000hrs. I didn't see something for indefinate. I do see
that I can in fact go more than 1000 hrs. Looks like I can actually go to
9999 hours. That is well over a year. That should work.

Thanks

I have a task that I need to run every five minutes. I am using task manager
to do this. However, in the advanced properties of the schedule, you are
limited to how many hours it will continue to do this. In this case, the
most you can go is 1000 hrs and 59 mins which is about 42 days. I want this
to keep running evey five minutes for ever basically! It is a VB executable
that checks for the presence of a file and acts upon whether or not it finds
the file. Anyone know how I can make this happen??

Thanks
Rick

When you repeat the task, there are two choices for [Until:]
you seem to using [time:], where you'd be better off
using [duration:]. See this screen shot

http://4.11.211.97/Repeat5.png

 

[tlviewer]

That is kinda the problem. I am using the duration, but the most you can
enter in there is 1000hrs. I didn't see something for indefinate. I do see
that I can in fact go more than 1000 hrs. Looks like I can actually go to
9999 hours. That is well over a year. That should work.

If your task is scheduled daily, then the duration is meaningful
up to 24 hours. Anything over that, your task is not
scheduled daily anymore.

--
tlviewer

Thanks

I have a task that I need to run every five minutes. I am using task manager
to do this. However, in the advanced properties of the schedule, you are
limited to how many hours it will continue to do this. In this case, the
most you can go is 1000 hrs and 59 mins which is about 42 days. I want this
to keep running evey five minutes for ever basically! It is a VB executable
that checks for the presence of a file and acts upon whether or not it finds
the file. Anyone know how I can make this happen??

Thanks
Rick

When you repeat the task, there are two choices for [Until:]
you seem to using [time:], where you'd be better off
using [duration:]. See this screen shot

http://4.11.211.97/Repeat5.png

 

[Pegasus \(MVP\)]

I have a task that I need to run every five minutes. I am using task manager
to do this. However, in the advanced properties of the schedule, you are
limited to how many hours it will continue to do this. In this case, the
most you can go is 1000 hrs and 59 mins which is about 42 days. I want this
to keep running evey five minutes for ever basically! It is a VB executable
that checks for the presence of a file and acts upon whether or not it finds
the file. Anyone know how I can make this happen??

Thanks
Rick

If you schedule the task to run every day of the week, and
if you make the start time 0:00 and the duration 24 hours,
then it will run every five minutes forever!