Having a system timer call my application at a certain time...

[Matt Markus]

Hi --

I'm writing an application that is supposed to perform some processing
everyday at 4:00 PM. Right now, I'm just using VB's timer, having it fire a
timer event every minute and checking the time to see if it's time to run.
However, there must be another approach. Is there any way I can have a
system timer call my processing function at 4:00 PM everyday? Or any other
ideas?

Thanks!

[Phil Weber]

> Is there any way I can have a system timer call my
> processing function at 4:00 PM everyday?

Matt: http://www.iopus.com/guides/winscheduler.htm
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Phil Weber

[Matt Markus]

Thanks, Phil, but I'm having the most difficult time finding this. I went to
the site you pointed me to and followed the directions... Why should it be
so **** hard.!? :-(

I'm using NT 4.0.

When I go to Add Remove/Programs.... Internet Explorer 5.5 and Internet
Tools and select Add/Remove and then Add a component... I get the message:
"Cannot find Windows Update Setup files on this computer. Please choose
'Windows Update' under your Internet Explorer 'Tools' menu to add components
to Internet Explorer"

So, I do that and I cannot find it on Microsoft's Update page.

Any Ideas?

"Phil Weber" <pweber @ fawcette.com> wrote in message
news:3bebed0b@147.208.176.211...
> > Is there any way I can have a system timer call my
> > processing function at 4:00 PM everyday?
>
> Matt: http://www.iopus.com/guides/winscheduler.htm
> ---
> Phil Weber
>
>

[Matt Markus]

Phil: if you go to http://windowsupdate.microsoft.com/?IE and choose Product
Updates it will take to a page with the updates. Which one would it be, it
doesn't say.

Thanks again!

[Phil Weber]

> I'm using NT 4.0...Any Ideas?

Matt: Try going to
http://search.microsoft.com/us/dev/?...0SEARCH%20MSDN and
searching for "windows nt schedule tasks". NT includes a Schedule service
that you can use to accomplish the same thing, but it has only a command
line interface (type "at /?" from a command prompt for details). If you do
the above search on MSDN, you find several articles about the IE task
scheduler component: how to install it, how to use it, etc.
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Phil Weber