Fire Windows programs using cron...

[Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)]

At 03:34 PM 1/16/2002, Evgeny Apanasenko wrote:
> > On Wed, Jan 16, 2002 at 07:59:32PM +0100, Evgeny Apanasenko wrote:

<snip>

> > 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?


I think Corinna's response implied the answer to this question.  To state
it more emphatically for you though, the answer is no.



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