Start up macro

Lumumba · Post by **Lumumba** » Tue Sep 23, 2003 10:37 pm

No. Compiled files aka programs don't need an interpreter.

What OS you're using? Cause W2K/XP should provide a scheduler!
What about AT? Check the forum for that DOS command!

kmorse · Post by **kmorse** » Tue Sep 23, 2003 10:38 pm

I tried Win2K scheduler and the program wouldn't start.

Bob Hansen · Post by **Bob Hansen** » Tue Sep 23, 2003 10:48 pm

NO....if it is compiled in Macro Scheduler it can go on any machine without Macro Scheduler.

But the scheduling at 3 pm will not work. The compiled file needs to be triggered by a Scheduler program.

kmorse · Post by **kmorse** » Tue Sep 23, 2003 10:50 pm

Thanks. I will have to see if I can get the Windows scheduler to run it.

support · Post by **support** » Wed Sep 24, 2003 6:54 am

Just do this at the command line:

AT 03:00 /Every:M,T,W,Th,F,Sa,Su c:\path\myexe.exe

It will now run every day at 3am.

(The scheduler service will need to be started of course)

kmorse · Post by **kmorse** » Wed Sep 24, 2003 6:11 pm

First of all, thanks for all the feedback to my question. Now I have another question. I have been able to activate the macro from the Windows Scheduler. As I posted earlier, my macro includes 5 minutes worth of wait time punctuated each minute by a message box warning any user who might be at the machine at 3 a.m. that the machine is going to shut down. The Windows scheduler asks for a domain, user name and password when setting it up. If I use my domain (on a network), name and password, the message boxes appear at one-minute intervals as desired and the machine logs off five minutes after the macro is started. If I supply instead the local machine domain, administrator name and password, I do not get the message boxes, but the machine does log off.
Any ideas out there?

Keith Morse
Denver, CO