OT: Scheduling a task every 30 mnutes?

I want to schedule the running of a batch file every 30 minutes. How can I
do this? The scheduler in windows wont allow such a regular schedule, with
'once every day' being the minimum. Any ideas anyone?

Bert wrote in
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> I want to schedule the running of a batch file every 30 minutes. How
> can I do this? The scheduler in windows wont allow such a regular
> schedule, with 'once every day' being the minimum. Any ideas
> anyone?

Actually you *can* schedule things to run more frequently that once a day,
but it's not very obvious how to do it.

When you are creating the schedule, there's an Advanced button on the
Schedule tabsheet which brings up an Advanced Schedule Options screen where
you can repeat the task every n minutes. Certainly this is the case for XP
Home.

I'm not sure why they couldn't have combined the basic and advanced schedule
screens into one, so you can define the repetition period to range from once
only via every week/day to every n minutes, all from one page.

the way i do this is to create a Windows server of the batch file and
within the batch file put in a wait command to wait 30 mins and then
loop the batch file again

example
run command
wait 30 mins
call batch file again


On Mon, 22 May 2006 15:56:05 +0100, "Bert" <(E-Mail Removed)>
wrote:

>I want to schedule the running of a batch file every 30 minutes. How can I
>do this? The scheduler in windows wont allow such a regular schedule, with
>'once every day' being the minimum. Any ideas anyone?
>
>

correction it should say Windows service instead of server.

On Mon, 22 May 2006 18:53:10 GMT, "..(.)(.).." <(E-Mail Removed)>
wrote:

>the way i do this is to create a Windows server of the batch file and
>within the batch file put in a wait command to wait 30 mins and then
>loop the batch file again
>
>example
>run command
>wait 30 mins
>call batch file again
>
>
>On Mon, 22 May 2006 15:56:05 +0100, "Bert" <(E-Mail Removed)>
>wrote:
>
>>I want to schedule the running of a batch file every 30 minutes. How can I
>>do this? The scheduler in windows wont allow such a regular schedule, with
>>'once every day' being the minimum. Any ideas anyone?
>>
>>

On 22 May 2006 16:10, "Martin Underwood" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

>When you are creating the schedule, there's an Advanced button on the
>Schedule tabsheet which brings up an Advanced Schedule Options screen where
>you can repeat the task every n minutes. Certainly this is the case for XP
>Home.

Similarly for Win 98... One has to look at the schedule tab, and click on a
button to get the option. It looks during set-up that "once a day" is their
maximum, but enabling repeats has the default setting to run every 10 min!