Do you know that you can actually scheduled certain apps to be run at certain time? For example, you can add scheduled tasks like auto soft reset at certain time of the day, auto clear temp files at certain time, etc.

There are several options for scheduling:
1) Schedule at certain time.
2) When a Storage Card has changed (removed/inserted, etc)
3) A full restore has completed.
4) A RS232/USB connection was made
5) Data synchronisation has finished (but still connected)
6) The system time changed.
7) The time zone changed.
8) The device woke up (power on)

These are actually parameters to enter into the Notification Queue. I suppose for most users, only the first option is most useful.

To make it simple, Kaisoft actually has some software which automate (schedule) turning off or performing soft reset:
Kai's Auto Turn Off.Net
Kai's Auto Softreset .Net

There is also another software which has power off, soft reset as well as scheduling features. And it's a freeware. Check out psShutXP here.

To have more flexibility in choosing which app to run under which schedule option, you can actually use tools like MemMaid to add a scheduled task to the Notification Queue.

Alternatively, there is a freeware for running batch jobs. It's not as easy to use as the apps mentioned above. You can find out more about MortScript here.

I just happen to spot an old freeware that allows the user to add scheduled tasks thought he Notification Queue. More info about WakeApp available here.

scheduled tasks? ok, i'll try on my mini

Hi,
I removed all scheduled taskes on page 3 of WakeApp as I thought they were not needed. now Active Sync will not work anymore. Any help? Anythink I could manually add back within WakeApp?
Thanks
Oshkosh

That is one reason why I always advise users not to remove notification queue entries which they are unfamiliar with, especially if they are not duplicates.

On my device, I see 2 entries with "repllog.exe". One of them is a simple one which links to "\Windows\repllog.exe" and runs on "AppRunAtRs232Detect". The other entry has a number of arguments and is set to run at certain time.

Thanks a lot.
I manually entered the first event and this fixed the problem.
oshkosh

I have configured my iPaq Backup to do a nightly backup, however, I wanted to be able to do a reset after the backup in order to restore those processes that the Backup program stopped. However, I have not been able to find a satisfactory solution (there is no freeware program that will automatically reschedule itself on a daily basis). Further more, as my PPC somehow always resets the auto suspend timer (somehow it always resets and the PPC stays on), I wrote a MortScript to handle the scheduling of the reset as well as rewriting the registry key to ensure that the suspend timer is working.

The script requires WakeApp to work, and I'm sure anyone can easily adapt this script to something that you want to run on a daily basis, have fun!

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Run "\Storage Card\WakeApp\WakeApp.exe"
Sleep 500

# Set program to run
MouseClick 120,100
Sleep 100
SendKeys "\Storage Card\ResetPowerTimer.mscr"

# Set the date to the next day
MouseClick 150,150
SendRight
SendCR

# Set the time
SendTab
SendKeys "5"
SendTab
SendKeys "00"

# Set the schedule
MouseClick 120,275

# Ensure that the suspend timer is correct
RegWriteDWord HKLM,System\CurrentControlSet\Control\Power\Timeouts,BattSuspendTimeout,77

Sleep 500
Reset