Comments on: How to schedule tasks in Windows using Z-Cron

By: akishore

akishore — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 20:29:01 +0000

I’m still confused though because when I go to Scheduled Tasks in Windows, I can only choose programs to schedule, it won’t let me choose files. How did you choose a file? Thanks

By: Michael The Dumb Tech Geek

Michael The Dumb Tech Geek — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 20:02:50 +0000

I selected the playlist file to run on schedule. When the time came, WMP the program opened and the playlist was loaded to Now Playing. I left WMP on Shuffle with the volume pretty high, so it was the perfect alarm.

By: akishore

akishore — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 16:40:38 +0000

Michael, you were able to schedule the Windows Media Player file using Scheduled Tasks in Windows? Or did you schedule Windows Media Player the program to start up and then WMP would automatically open your playlist when started?

By: Phao Loo

Phao Loo — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 15:34:25 +0000

That’s cute to set an mp3 to wake me up in the morning this way.

By: Michael The Dumb Tech Geek

Michael The Dumb Tech Geek — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 12:27:57 +0000

“The Windows Control Panel has Windows Scheduled Task Wizard (shown below) will let you schedule program execution but you will not be able to automatically open a file related to that program.”

I played with this awhile back and may be mistaken, but Windows Media Player saves its playlists as a file. I set up morning wake-up calls by setting that file to run when I wanted to wake up, and it opened WMP and started immediately.

Assuming I’d left the volume at a ‘wakeup’ level, it worked like a charm.