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Open a page in the default browser following a schedule
Posted on June 7th by david
The notification component of our wiki (plone) isn't useful enough to bother with, so as a workaround I view its "Recent Changes" page on a regular basis. Well, as regularly as I can remember, which hasn't been regular enough. So now I use Windows7's Task Scheduler to open the page for me on a repeating schedule. This should also be useful for catching regular Internet radio programs. Steps: Start | All Programs | Admin Tools | Task Scheduler | Create Task (in far right pane) General tab Enter a name you'll recognize later Triggers tab | New... Enter when the task should occur Actions tab | New... Action = Start a Program Program/script = rundll32 Arguments = url.dll,FileProtocolHandler http://yourFavoriteSiteHere.net Conditions tab Start only if the computer is on AC power => off Wake the computer to run this task => on Settings tab Run as soon as possible after scheduled start is missed => on

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