Task Scheduler repeat task duration bug?

I have a task that I want run daily, starting at 10am and repeat every 15
minutes for 6 hours. So that's exactly how I enter it in the Trigger page.
The problem is the task runs every 15 minutes and continues to run around
the clock. I don't understand it. I had no problem setting this task up in
XP...

I'm having the same problem here!! task starting every weekday, from 8:00
repeating every hour for 10 hours (stockquotes )
And it keeps on going all nite long....

HELP please

Ruud

"sm02463" wrote:

> I have a task that I want run daily, starting at 10am and repeat every 15
> minutes for 6 hours. So that's exactly how I enter it in the Trigger page.
> The problem is the task runs every 15 minutes and continues to run around
> the clock. I don't understand it. I had no problem setting this task up in
> XP...

Its not bug - just a change in feature.
Scheduler wont care at what time the task was "supposed" to start, bu
whenever the task does start, it'll repeat it every xx minutes for
duration of xx hrs from THAT instant - when the task did start
irrespective of its *actual* start time.

Try setting repeat every 1 minute for a duration of 5 minutes. And se
the starting time couple of hours earlier than current time and manuall
start the task - it'll repeat itself every next minutes four more time
- just as expected.

I had same trouble, then I saw this :
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MurkMenthaa

I don't know if this is needed anymore, but heres a workaround :

Suppose I have to run a task every 15 minutes from 8am to 8pm
i'll set my clock to show time in *24-HRS HH:mm* format from regional
settings in control panel.

Then I'll make a bat file that checks whether current time is between
8:00 and 20:00 hrs and put my task command there as follows

@echo off
FOR /F "tokens=*" %%R IN ('time /T') DO SET time=%%R
set HR=%time:~0,2%
if %HR% geq *_8_* if %HR% leq *_19_* goto main
goto exit
:main

rem put your desired command(s) here
rem for eg to run calculator, :
calc.exe

:exit
rem program ends here

see that 8 and 19 are bold and undrlined because i want task to run
betweek 8 hrs and 20 hrs, so you can change those values accordingly.

I understand that OP may not be interested at all now, given it was
asked a year ago but i just googled and found so many other posts about
the same topic so I guess this might help someone.


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MurkMenthaa

MurkMenthaa <> wrote:

>I don't know if this is needed anymore, but heres a workaround :

The fact that the post you have chosen to reply to is dated a YEAR AGO
is a certain clue, except to the clueless.