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--- tricks:taskscheduler [2021/07/20 13:44] – created icke_siegen
+++ tricks:taskscheduler [2021/07/20 15:32] (current) – external edit 127.0.0.1
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 ====== Start apps with the Task Scheduler ======
+Idea and implementation by Peter Häusler (the Swiss Avolites guy), 2021.
 <color #ed1c24><fs x-large>**You are strongly discouraged from installing any third-party software on Avolites consoles. Doing so will void warranty, will probably result in unreliable behaviour of the console - and you will most likely end in all sorts of lampy hell.**</fs></color>
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 b) sometimes it's just a necessity to install something on it and make it start automatically.
-As Titan consoles run on Windows Embedded which prevents you from doing many things you can do on a standard Windows installation (like, installing services, or autostart programs), you need to find another way of launching an additional app at system start. The example here is [[external:software_list|rtpMIDI]] being installed **and made start automatically** on a TNP for a permanent installation.
+As Titan consoles run on Windows Embedded which prevents you from doing many things you can do on a standard Windows installation (like, installing services, or autostart programs), you need to find another way of launching an additional app at system start. The example here is [[external:software_list|loopMIDI]] being installed **and made start automatically** on a TNP for a permanent installation.
 ===== - Open the Windows Explorer =====
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 ===== - Create Task ... =====
-In the Task Scheduler's Action pane (right) click on ''Create task...''
+In the Task Scheduler's Action pane (right) click on ''Create Task...''
+{{:tricks:02_start.png?400|Task Scheduler
-{{:tricks:02_start.png?400|Task Scheduler Start}}
+start}}
 ===== - General =====
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 On the tab ''General'' give the new task a name and a description.
-{{:tricks:03_general.png?400|}}
+{{:tricks:03_general.png?400|The General tab}}
 ===== - Triggers =====
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 On the tab ''Triggers'' click at ''New...'' and select ''At log on'', to make the task being executed every time the user is looged on.
-{{:tricks:03_task_details.jpg?400|}}
+{{:tricks:03_task_details.jpg?400|The Triggers tab}}
 ===== - Actions =====
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 On the ''Actions'' tab click ''New'', select the Action ''Start a program'', and browse to the program (exe file). (In this example we make loopMIDI being started automatically).
-{{:tricks:06_task_actions.jpg?400|}}
+{{:tricks:06_task_actions.jpg?400|The Actions tab}}
 ===== - Conditions =====
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 The ''Conditions'' tab does not require any changes.
-{{:tricks:04_task_conditions.jpg?400|}}
+{{:tricks:04_task_conditions.jpg?400|The Conditions tab}}
 ===== - Settings =====
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 On the ''Settings'' tab you may want to additionally check ''Run task as soon as possible after a scheduled start is missed''. Apart from that the default values are okay.
-{{:tricks:05_task_settings.jpg?400|}}
+{{:tricks:05_task_settings.jpg?400|The Settings tab}}
 ===== - Confirm, close windows =====
-Confirm the new tast's settings and close all windows. Next time you start the console the task will be executed.
+Confirm the new task's settings and close all windows. Next time you start the console the task will be executed.