Task Scheduler - run program on wake

JimLewandowski said:

The message should be the easy part. You can click on the HISTORY tab of your opened (via properties) Task and see when it ran, what errors, etc.

So, you are home-free at this point.

I meant getting Task Scheduler to display a message on the Desktop.
I thought that "show a message" meant display a Windows Dialog box on the Desktop.

I created a task, which was supposed to display a message at a certain time.
It never displayed a message.
I added a sound alert (IrfanView) to that task.
The sound played, but the message didn't appear.

I guess I could have made it display a txt file (Notepad) or a picture (IrfanView).

JimLewandowski said:

I thought you could only do ONE of the following:

Create message
Send an email
Start a program

The messsage, if it works, will be a regular windows popup window with the only button to click OK with the message text above it.

I've done the message before as I have a popup that shows up any time I connect a removable drive to my desktop.

That's what I was expecting, but I couldn't make it work.

I was only trying to do it, to troubleshoot a problem I was having.
I was unaware that Windows automatically turned itself off after 2 minutes (if activated by an unattended task).

I wanted my machine to wake up and perform an AV scan (4:00 am).
I set:

• The task time (3:45 am)
• The Program Update time to 5 minutes later (3:50 am)
• The Virus Database update time to 5 minutes after that (3:55 am).
• The AV scan time to 5 minutes after that (4:00 am).

Of course none of the AV steps started.

I thought that if I got it to display a message, I would see the Dialog box on my Desktop (which would confirm that the task had started).
That never worked.

I then tried setting a task to display a message (in a few minutes, whilst I watched).
No message ever appeared.

I then included a sound (IrfanView).
The sound worked!

Brink sorted it out my original problem for me.
So I never bothered to try to figure out what was happening.

JimLewandowski said:

I was expecting you to set NO time on any of these tasks as they would simply be triggered from the EVENT ID 1 event.

My bad.
Ancient history (that happened last year).

Since Brink solved my original dilemma, I didn't bothered to look into the message mystery.