Task Scheduler - run program on wake

[foreversilent004]

I simply want to run a program when the computer returns from standby, but I see no options in the scheduler.

Help?

 

[Bare Foot Kid]

Hello foreversilent004.





Not sure this is what you're looking for but have a look at the tutorial at the link below; be sure to keep us informed.


Task - Create to Run a Program at Startup and Log On

 

[Lemur]

Use Task Scheduler.
Create a new task.
Give it a name
For Trigger, make a new one.
Begin the task: and select task for wake up
Then selection actions and conditions.

 

[foreversilent004]

Use Task Scheduler.
Create a new task.
Give it a name
For Trigger, make a new one.
Begin the task: and select task for wake up
Then selection actions and conditions.

There is no selection for 'on wake' in the pulldown menu

 

[foreversilent004]

Hello foreversilent004.





Not sure this is what you're looking for but have a look at the tutorial at the link below; be sure to keep us informed.


Task - Create to Run a Program at Startup and Log On

This is for my HTPC, and it is always logged on. It is always powered, just sleeping or in use.

 

[Lemur]

Weird. I thought it existed for Vista but, like you said, it's not there for 7.

 

[foreversilent004]

So, any other options you can think of?

 

[REB]

I truly hate when the results on Google come up with this forum. 90% of the time the answers are stupid, wrong or just something someone would answer without really reading the OP's question.

****in' hell...

 

[JimLewandowski]

FWIW, I think Task Scheduler is the most valuable thing around in Windows.

Pull up Event Viewer (Control Panel -> Administrative Tools -> Event Viewer) and select (LH side) caret by SYSTEM LOGS. Then select SYSTEM.

Scroll and find the time when your PC just woke up from sleep. The event ID will be 1 and source column will be Power-Troubleshooter.

Highlight that and then right-click and select Attach task to this event. Then do your thing by setting up all the applet panels.

Here's mine (using the COPY tile from the lower pane):

Log Name: System
Source: Microsoft-Windows-Power-Troubleshooter
Date: 12/28/2011 8:31:26 PM
Event ID: 1
Task Category: None
Level: Information
Keywords:
User: LOCAL SERVICE
Computer: Jim-GLH
Description:
The system has resumed from sleep.
Sleep Time: ‎2011‎-‎12‎-‎28T23:36:50.608543500Z
Wake Time: ‎2011‎-‎12‎-‎29T01:31:18.170801200Z
Wake Source: Unknown


Test by simply issuing a MESSAGE when that event occurs (will present a popup window for you of text).

 

[lehnerus2000]

Test by simply issuing a MESSAGE when that event occurs (will present a popup window for you of text).

I could never get the pop-up message to work.

I could make it run a program (IrfanView) which played a noise/tune though.

 

[JimLewandowski]

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.

 

[lehnerus2000]

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]

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.

 

[lehnerus2000]

That's what I was expecting ...

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]

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.

 

[lehnerus2000]

My bad.

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.

 

[pxfragonard]

FWIW, I think Task Scheduler is the most valuable thing around in Windows.

Pull up Event Viewer (Control Panel -> Administrative Tools -> Event Viewer) and select (LH side) caret by SYSTEM LOGS. Then select SYSTEM.

Scroll and find the time when your PC just woke up from sleep. The event ID will be 1 and source column will be Power-Troubleshooter.

Highlight that and then right-click and select Attach task to this event. Then do your thing by setting up all the applet panels.

Here's mine (using the COPY tile from the lower pane):

Log Name: System
Source: Microsoft-Windows-Power-Troubleshooter
Date: 12/28/2011 8:31:26 PM
Event ID: 1
Task Category: None
Level: Information
Keywords:
User: LOCAL SERVICE
Computer: Jim-GLH
Description:
The system has resumed from sleep.
Sleep Time: ‎2011‎-‎12‎-‎28T23:36:50.608543500Z
Wake Time: ‎2011‎-‎12‎-‎29T01:31:18.170801200Z
Wake Source: Unknown


Test by simply issuing a MESSAGE when that event occurs (will present a popup window for you of text).

What could you add to the message pop-up to close it, say, in 2 seconds if the point is just to wake the computer?