How can i schedule a program to close.........?

pmbuzz · 20 Jan 2006 at 02:07

I need to schedule a program to close itself everyday at 8am, how can i achieve this?
I've XP's "scheduled tasks" and that doesn't do it.
Is there another way or app to do this?

Thanks.

SiriusB · 20 Jan 2006 at 02:17

I don't really know of any way of killing a program automatically. What program is it? Does it not have it's own scheduler?

SiriusB

pmbuzz · 20 Jan 2006 at 02:22

It's a Bittorrent program, no scheduler no.

bledd · 20 Jan 2006 at 02:59

download pskill from sysinternals, put it into your system32 folder

create a file in notepad

save it as killer.bat or something (make sure its .bat and not .txt)

have this text in the file!

pskill torrent.exe

save..

call that bat file in schuduler!

SiriusB · 20 Jan 2006 at 03:03

oooh swish... might use that meself

SiriusB

NiCkNaMe · 20 Jan 2006 at 08:44

Or you could download a macro program and kill it by making a macro

pmbuzz · 20 Jan 2006 at 10:39

Thanks bledd.
Will give that a try.

Otacon · 20 Jan 2006 at 10:56

You can also just use 'taskkill', which you already have on your machine.

Caged · 20 Jan 2006 at 11:10

Or you could use uTorrent which lets you schedule downloads.

pmbuzz · 20 Jan 2006 at 21:02

I'm using uTorrent but can't seem to get the scheduling to work properly, ie I i scheduled a particular torrent to stop at 8am but found it was still going at 11am !!!

**EDIT**

I figured out uTorrent's scheduler

Thanks for all the input guys.

Wolfenstein · 21 Jan 2006 at 01:03

Azureus has a nice scheduler but you have to download it as a plugin called 'Speed Scheduler' which you find in the plugin section of there site.

Once installed you can schedule your downloads in a different way including uploads and download speeds.

At the mo, i have mine set so i download my torrents at midnight to 8am and then it pauses from 8am to midnight including seeding

pmbuzz · 21 Jan 2006 at 01:12

Wolfenstein said:
Azureus has a nice scheduler but you have to download it as a plugin called 'Speed Scheduler' which you find in the plugin section of there site.

Once installed you can schedule your downloads in a different way including uploads and download speeds.

At the mo, i have mine set so i download my torrents at midnight to 8am and then it pauses from 8am to midnight including seeding

Another fellow Plusnetter?
lol

Wolfenstein · 21 Jan 2006 at 01:14

lol you got it in 1, typical plusnet eh :rolleyes:

NathanE · 21 Jan 2006 at 12:37

You could always use Control Panel->Scheduled Tasks

You'll have to set it up so the task gets started at X time and then after X hours is shut down. I use it with Azureus and it works a treat.