Windows 10 Task Scheduler to Launch Application on Idle After Specified Amount of Time

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I'm using Task Scheduler to launch application when computer is idle using the "On idle" trigger.

This works great and all and it seems to wait for 4 minutes until it fires.

Question is: If I wanted to launch application for 10 minutes, how do I configure? I tried using "Conditions" tab but that did not work.

Eric Nguyen

Posted 2019-06-03T19:36:44.990

Reputation: 121

When you say "for 10 minutes" do you mean that you want it to run 10 minutes after you last interact with the computer instead of 4 minutes? Or do you mean that you want the task to run 4 minutes after you last interact with the computer and then automatically quit that running task after 10 minutes? – Worthwelle – 2019-06-03T20:37:34.663

@Worthwelle Yes, I want it to run 10 minutes after last interaction. – Eric Nguyen – 2019-06-03T20:42:51.950

1Without editing the idle time or thinking about it too deeply, you could probably have the Task Scheduler trigger a batch file (after the idle) that waits six minutes then starts your application. – mael' – 2019-06-03T20:46:24.910

@mael' Thanks. This is pointing me to right direction. I created batch file and using "timeout" command to delay. This works but it opens a cmd window that starts a countdown of the timeout. Any way I can make the countdown/wait invisible? – Eric Nguyen – 2019-06-03T22:12:19.117

Answers

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I found the solution by following this.

Basically creating a VBS script:

Set WshShell = CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
WshShell.Run chr(34) & "C:\Test\My.bat" & Chr(34), 0
Set WshShell = Nothing

And selecting it as program/script to run within Task Scheduler.

Eric Nguyen

Posted 2019-06-03T19:36:44.990

Reputation: 121

Asked: 2019-06-03T19:36:44.990

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Active: 2019-06-04T16:29:16.067