Need help with DOS Date comparing

Greetings,

I know that this is a Windows 7 forum, but I thought I would give it a try.

My ultimate goal is to have a vbs script run after a certain date on a computer image.

I thought that this would be best done with a simple batch file. In Windows XP, whenever you would create a Scheduled Task and run Sysprep, the task would not run because it loses credentials and must be restored in order to work. I don't know if this is true in Windows 7, but not to take the chance, I'm thinking using the Registry Run option to point to the batch file each bootup.

I think it might be simple to do, but I can't figure it out. I'm open to other options as well. But for now here's my for example,

if "%date%"=="Fri 10/28/2011" echo %date%

I need it to check to see if it's "Fri 10/28/2011" or any day after, so something like...

if "%date%"== or >"Fri 10/28/2011" echo %date%

Thanks!

Task scheduler has the option to run as administrator, which would work for your scenario. Why not try it and see?

I'm going to give it a go. Thanks for your help!

yes, every day after a certain day.

I tried the Windows Task Scheduler, for Windows 7. Very different interface from XP, looks more capable. However, when I scheduled the task to run under a different admin account (not administrator), it says it ran successfully, but I see nothing happening when logged in as administrator.

The vbs script is a simple popup message. I need this message to appear everyday after a certain date regardless of what user is logged on. Can this be done? If so, what am I doing wrong that prevents the scheduled task to not only run, but display the popup under the currently logged in account?

Just need a message displayed.

That worked, thank you!

Used the same directions, but tweaked to start vbs script. Still worked. Much appreciated!