scheduler

[sergiorodrigues]

in my opinion utorrent has a good scheduler, but

as i will be changing to ADSL 16Mb with only unlimited traffic between 1 and 8 am

and i need to run some programs (mainly ed2k for some very specific things)

i would like to know if anyone knows a good scheduler that not only starts up a

program at a predetermined time but also closes the program at another time.

schedulers that just start programs i know about.

[Firon]

Um, the Windows task scheduler?

[BlackLion]

yep, Windows has had a task scheduler for the longest, say since what, 1997?

[splintax]

Does the Windows task manager close tasks? I don't think so, maybe I'm wrong.

In the past what I've done to close tasks on the command line (I used it on a hotkey) was this process killing app. (It closes processes gracefully as well as killing them.)

process -q utorrent.exe

would be the code you have to run to close µTorrent, assuming you've named it utorrent.exe.

[idle.newbie]

i love the beyondlogic's process.exe... and you should turn off "Close to tray" in general options, or it will "kill" µTorrent after 60 seconds.

maybe he can try autoit script, start ed2k and wait 7 hours then close ed2k, execute that script at 1am from windows scheduler.

[sergiorodrigues]

thanks splintax, seems like it will do the job

not that i will be ending utorrent, in utorrent i can tell it to do no trafic the rest of the time except 1-8 am.

good way to implement scheduler in utorrent. wish other programs had the same thing.