Fire Windows programs using cron...

[Evgeny Apanasenko]

> On Wed, Jan 16, 2002 at 07:59:32PM +0100, Evgeny Apanasenko wrote:
> > Dear All,
> > 
> > I've set up cron to fire W2K GUI program ntbackup.exe. Everything works
> but
> > I would like the program to interact with GUI display and keyboard (now
> I
> > can't see the program window when it is working). How can I do this?
> 
> You would have to switch on the `Allow service to interact with
> desktop' facility to the cron service.  That would result in
> a console window always visible when cron is runing, though.
> 
> Actually, cron isn't designed to start GUI apps.
> 
> Corinna

Thanks for the answer, it works.

By the way is it possible to hide DOS-window appering when cron service is
started?

Regards,
Eugene

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