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harry · Contributor Joined: 01 May 2003 Posts: 61

hi guys,
say what is the best way to have a program wait for
30 days and then to do its job and then wait untill the end on the next month and repeat?

oh yeah its with vds4

thanks

trapper · Posted: Wed Jan 02, 2008 9:14 pm Post subject:

Use Windows Scheduler to run the program when required.

harry · Contributor Joined: 01 May 2003 Posts: 61

any other route???

trapper · Posted: Wed Jan 02, 2008 11:52 pm Post subject:

PGWARE · **Web Host** Joined: 29 Dec 2001 Posts: 1565

If it's being run on a server than waiting 30 days may be okay, but if it's on a client/user machine it's likely it will be rebooted several times between that time.

Have your application run on Windows startup. You should write a date to the registry and have your application check if it is past this date, if so then execute the applications code; otherwise have it close the application so it doesn't use up system resources unnecessarily.

The windows scheduler is the best idea since you don't have to execute the application until it is exactly at a certain date/time - however if the date/time passes and the computer was not on then the scheduler won't execute - using the windows startup method noted above will be better in this case.