scheduled task windows 7

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Everton
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scheduled task windows 7

Post by Everton » Sat Nov 06, 2010 11:59 am

I'm having problems getting XmltvGUI to run from a windows 7 x64 scheduled task. I have no problems running:

"C:\Program Files (x86)\XMLTV GUI\XmltvGUI.exe" /Grab

from the program's target window, but when I try to do this in a scheduled task it doesn't work. I have:

"C:\Program Files (x86)\XMLTV GUI\XmltvGUI.exe"

in the program line, and:

/Grab

in the add arguments line.

Any ideas? Thanks in advance for help.

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Re: scheduled task windows 7

Post by alanbirtles » Sat Nov 06, 2010 2:00 pm

what do you mean by doesnt work?

Everton
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Re: scheduled task windows 7

Post by Everton » Sat Nov 06, 2010 2:47 pm

nothing happens when I run the task i.e. xmltvGUI doesn't launch (well, something flickers on the screen for a millisecond and is gone). If I run manually with Grab in the 'target' I have no problems, it's just via a scheduled task. I've tried creating a bat file which again works fine manually, but not via a scheduled task.

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Re: scheduled task windows 7

Post by alanbirtles » Sat Nov 06, 2010 4:41 pm

is a log file created?

Everton
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Re: scheduled task windows 7

Post by Everton » Sat Nov 06, 2010 5:57 pm

no, nothing - it just says 'Running' for ages when I run the task and doesn't stop.

How do you schedule the job on your pc?

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Re: scheduled task windows 7

Post by Everton » Sat Nov 06, 2010 6:17 pm

got it working but dont know how....I deleted the argument grab and just had the task open the program ("C:\Program Files (x86)\XMLTV GUI\XmltvGUI.exe") to check that bit worked, which it did. Then I went back and added /grab to the arguments and it worked. I guess windows got a bit confused when the argument is added at the start

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