Task Scheduler - program to start up on weekdays.

Chomeur

debitcardmayhem wrote: »

Run it for 00:01 it should run at start I think,I used to do that for iplayer

Yes, I wondered if tasks would run on startup if they had been scheduled to run in the same day before startup. Just tried it, and seems not though.

Chomeur

John_Gray wrote: »

Here you are.

I assume you're happy with cutting all the code below and pasting it into a NOTEPAD window, then save it as CallTerm.txt into the folder
C:\Program Files\Smart Live Spread Bet MT4
When you've saved it there, then rename CallTerm.txt to be CallTerm.bat

@echo off

:: +--------------+
:: I CallTerm.bat I   run Terminal.exe on weekdays only
:: +--------------+

:: this BATch file should be scheduled to run at Logon time

setlocal

:: determine today's day of the week from the subroutine
::   (this is a surprisingly complicated procedure!)
call :Today yy mm dd downame

:: to prevent the date info from displaying, change display=y to display=n
set display=y

if /i "%display%"=="y" echo %~n0: today, %dd%/%mm%/%yy%, is a %downame% 
if /i "%display%"=="y" ping -n 6 127.0.0.1>nul

:: THIS NEXT LINE FOR TESTING ONLY - remove when happy it works
set downame=Monday

:: if the day of the week doesn't begin with an S, then it's a weekday
::   so start Terminal.exe, otherwise do nothing
if not "%downame:~0,1%"=="S" start "" terminal.exe

:: terminate this batch file
endlocal
goto :eof

::-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
:Today year month day  [day_of_week_name [day_of_week_num [week_of_month_num]]]
::
:: By:   (originally) Ritchie Lawrence, 2002-2003, before whom I bow in awe
::       GetDate, DatetoDOW and DayName combined into this file by John Gray
::
:: Args: at least three arguments MUST be supplied
::       %1 var to receive year,                 4 digits (by ref)
::       %2 var to receive month,                2 digits, 01 to 12 (by ref)
::       %3 var to receive day,                  2 digits, 01 to 31 (by ref)
::  opt  %4 var to receive day-of-week name,     Monday to Sunday (by ref)
::  opt  %5 var to receive day-of-week number,   1 digit, 1 to 7 (by ref)
::  opt  %6 var to receive week-of-month number, 1 digit, 1 to 5 (by ref)
::                           used for determining the 3rd Wednesday, etc

if .%3==. md;2>nul & goto :eof & :: give errorlevel 1 if fewer than 3 arguments
ver>nul & :: return errorlevel 0 in future
setlocal ENABLEEXTENSIONS
set t=2&if "%date%z" LSS "A" set t=1
for /f "skip=1 tokens=2-4 delims=(-)" %%a in ('echo/^|date') do (
  for /f "tokens=%t%-4 delims=.-/ " %%f in ('date/t') do (
    set %%a=%%f&set %%b=%%g&set %%c=%%h))
if 1%yy% LSS 200 if 1%yy% LSS 170 (set yy=20%yy%) else (set yy=19%yy%)
if .%4==. endlocal&set %1=%yy%&set %2=%mm%&set %3=%dd%&goto :eof
:: note that dd and mm MAY have a leading zero, but d and m do not
set /a d=100%dd%%%100,m=100%mm%%%100
set /a z=14-m,z/=12,y=yy+4800-z,m=m+12*z-3,dw=153*m+2
set /a dw=dw/5+d+y*365+y/4-y/100+y/400-2472630,dw%%=7,dw+=1
for /f "tokens=%dw%" %%a in ('echo/Mon Tues Wednes Thurs Fri Satur Sun') do (
  set nm=%%aday)
if .%5==. endlocal&set %1=%yy%&set %2=%mm%&set %3=%dd%&set %4=%nm%&goto :eof
if .%6==. endlocal&set %1=%yy%&set %2=%mm%&set %3=%dd%&set %4=%nm%&set^
  %5=%dw%&goto :eof
set /a wm=1+d/7
endlocal&set %1=%yy%&set %2=%mm%&set %3=%dd%&set %4=%nm%&set^
  %5=%dw%&set %6=%wm%&goto :eof
::----------------------------------------------------------------------------

Then all you have to do is to set up your scheduled task to run
"C:\Program Files\Smart Live Spread Bet MT4\CallTerm.bat"
at Logon time.

You will see that I have put some debugging information in the BATch file which will keep the Command Prompt window open for a few seconds, whereupon it should disappear and the Terminal window should appear. Also a 'bodge' line so that you can change the day-of-the-week for testing purposes.

This may be a bit messy to implement, and I hope you know enough to be able to do the bits which I haven't explained.

Let me know how it goes, or if you have any questions!

Thanks John. It took me a little bit of playing around to convert the text file to a batch file, but now it seems to work perfectly, so thanks very much!

John_Gray

Chomeur wrote: »

Thanks John. It took me a little bit of playing around to convert the text file to a batch file, but now it seems to work perfectly, so thanks very much!

Excellent! I'm sure you'll let me know if you experience any problems in the future...