Scheduler app?

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Here's something I've NEVER used beyond trying it out once. One of
the first things I do on a Windows re-install is to disable the
default scheduler.

But I'm finding things have changed. I've been adding a few more
things to the startup menu, enough to make life a bit more difficult
than it should be.

In actuality, ALL the items in the startup folder should start up but
only ONCE a day is needed so that no matter what time of day it is, on
reboot on next day, those apps that normally were in startup folder,
now appear on reboot (birthday app, journal app, talking reminder that
I have. That would just leave my ZoneAlarm in the startup.

I was wondering if people could advise me re their favourite, the one
they find is most comprehensive but easiest to use. I have always
found the Windows default as very unsatisfactory.

Thanks everyone!
 
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In actuality, ALL the items in the startup folder should start up but
only ONCE a day is needed so that no matter what time of day it is, on
reboot on next day, those apps that normally were in startup folder,
now appear on reboot (birthday app, journal app, talking reminder that
I have. That would just leave my ZoneAlarm in the startup.

I was wondering if people could advise me re their favourite, the one
they find is most comprehensive but easiest to use. I have always
found the Windows default as very unsatisfactory.
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Actually, I think that the birthday reminder one should come up a bit
more often, so although I'll probably shut the scheduler off once I've
finished with it for that session, that it'll be an item that still
comes up on next reboot so that I can schedule that birthday reminder
to come up twice a day but only on reboot. I do sometimes do more
than one reboot a day since the system needs to be overhauled with a
wipe/reinstall which I can't do yet. So it's getting more and more
buggy. So the scheduler should also be flexible enough to understand
more than one occurrence of an event over a certain period of time.

Thanks again!
 
fitwell said:
Here's something I've NEVER used beyond trying it out once. One of
the first things I do on a Windows re-install is to disable the
default scheduler.

But I'm finding things have changed. I've been adding a few more
things to the startup menu, enough to make life a bit more difficult
than it should be.

In actuality, ALL the items in the startup folder should start up but
only ONCE a day is needed so that no matter what time of day it is, on
reboot on next day, those apps that normally were in startup folder,
now appear on reboot (birthday app, journal app, talking reminder that
I have. That would just leave my ZoneAlarm in the startup.

I was wondering if people could advise me re their favourite, the one
they find is most comprehensive but easiest to use. I have always
found the Windows default as very unsatisfactory.

Thanks everyone!
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I like X-ecutor free for home use.
http://www.xpertdesign.de/english/sw_xecutor_info.htm
 
I like X-ecutor free for home use.
http://www.xpertdesign.de/english/sw_xecutor_info.htm
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You know how it's hard to figure everything out when you start out
writing about an issue? Well, I realized after installing that I made
a mistake. I said I needed the app to launch something only as much
as ONCE a day, but that isn't the case. I believe that the windows
one allows scheduling for every x number of hours. This app is
greallly good, but it doesn't seem to do that.

The reason I never liked the windows one is that, iirc, you have to
press ctrl-alt-delete to shut it off.

So, sorry about the mistake, but does anyone know of an app that also
allows frequencies in the hours and days and not just once a day?

Thanks very much! Appreciate the info.
 
Here's something I've NEVER used beyond trying it out once. One of
the first things I do on a Windows re-install is to disable the
default scheduler.
Click to expand...

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Well, it's always really nice to find the perfect solution. It looks
like without knowing it, I had what I needed. It was getting very
frustrating - but I got to thinking that a talking reminder program I
have called Puac Alarm Program worked in the way I need a scheduler
to. I launched Puac to check it out and found that it's a task
scheduler, too!

I've set the two tasks I needed to launch twice a day and they'll only
start at the set time but they'll come on after the computer has been
off if the alarm was missed. Perfect!

Bonus - its 3 configuration files are very small and easy to back up
so one need never set it all up completely ever again; only to
fine-tune or change. Also, although it's a little tricky to set up
the very first time, once you have an alarm work the way you want,
with a simple copy/paste you get a duplicate which can then be renamed
and changed to reflect the new reminder/task you need. Very easy!

You need something like the microsoft voices to have speech capability
so although Puac is a small dl, the voices aren't. But it's really
neat because with them you can hear the alarms even in another part of
the room. It also can have wav files in the same event!

Puac Alarm Program v2.0.7 found here:
http://huizen.dds.nl/~kokpeter/Puac/index.htm
On a recommendation from a poster in this ng some months back now.
 
Here's something I've NEVER used beyond trying it out once. One of
the first things I do on a Windows re-install is to disable the
default scheduler.
Click to expand...

[snip]

Well, it's always really nice to find the perfect solution. It looks
like without knowing it, I had what I needed. It was getting very
frustrating - but I got to thinking that a talking reminder program I
have called Puac Alarm Program worked in the way I need a scheduler
to. I launched Puac to check it out and found that it's a task
scheduler, too!
Click to expand...

Well, it worked perfectly! I didn't reboot this morning, only
launched Puac to see what it would do and it launched the apps! It
hadn't during 2 reboots yesterday because the time wasn't right.
Puac's ability to play WAVs as well as speak text at the same time is
fabulous, all the while it's performing the scheduled tasks!

The only thing I had to do was increase the delay time between the 3
alarms/tasks. The first alarm wav didn't have a chance to finish
before the second one started, then the 2nd one was cut off by the 3rd
wav/speech. I'd put a test 3-second delay only, (i.e., 2nd one to
start 3 seconds after first, and 3 one 6 seconds after), so just
increased to a 5 second interval between the 3. I'll modify that if
there still isn't enough time though I think 5 seconds should be
enough.

Just an fyi. :oD
 
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