Vista - How to schedule a VBScript to run every five minutes

I'm using XP SP2.

I tried setting up a task using Task Scheduler to run:

Every 5 minutes from 6:26 PM for 1 hours(s) every day, starting
10/6/2008 and ending 9/7/2009.

But this ran once and that was it.

Any ideas?

<gimme_this_gimme_that@xxxxxx> wrote in message
news:22a9f77a-7be2-4674-9bc6-521f34947e4d@xxxxxxWhat duration did you set?

<gimme_this_gimme_that@xxxxxx> wrote in message
news:22a9f77a-7be2-4674-9bc6-521f34947e4d@xxxxxxYou can use the command line task scheduler (watch for wrapping):

schtasks.exe /Create /TN "My Task" /TR "C:\Test.vbs" /RU System /SC Minute
/MO 5

Wow James.

Quite a solution.

I need to run it on three tasks:

For task one:

0,5,10,15,20,25,30,35,40,45,50,55

For task two:

1,6,11,16,21,26,31,36,41,46,51,56

And task three:

2,8,12,17,22,27,32,37,42,47,52,57

So how do I set up the start time to get this to happen?

Thanks!

On Oct 7, 3:01*pm, "Pegasus \(MVP\)" <I....@xxxxxx> wrote:

One hour.

What does duration refer to? What should it be?

Thanks.

<gimme_this_gimme_that@xxxxxx> wrote in message
news:22a9f77a-7be2-4674-9bc6-521f34947e4d@xxxxxxIf it starts on october 6th it is already finished, as september 7th is long
past.

/Al

I'm confused as to what you want to do, here...

<gimme_this_gimme_that@xxxxxx> wrote in message
news:f733cf48-1519-45e4-8b86-bd3e1fca19c2@xxxxxxwhat are these numbers? offsets in minutes from 6:26? Is this task supposed
to start at 6:26, 6:31, 6:36, and etc? how long will each instance run
before it stops running? If more than 5 minutes, each of those will need to
be scheduled separately.

/Al

<gimme_this_gimme_that@xxxxxx> wrote in message
news:f733cf48-1519-45e4-8b86-bd3e1fca19c2@xxxxxxYou can use the '/ST' switch to specify a start time. Modifying the
original example to have it start at 4 PM:

schtasks.exe /Create /TN "My Task" /TR "C:\Test.vbs" /RU System /SC Minute
/MO 5 /ST 16:00:00

You can type 'schtasks.exe /Create /?' at the command prompt to get the
syntax and a listing of the switches.

For your examples above, just start task one at the beginning of the
hour (/ST 16:00:00), task two at one minute past (/ST 16:01:00) & task three
for two minutes after (/ST 16:02:00). Modify for your preferred starting
hour...

Set it to 24 hours if you want it to run continuously. If you set it for
every five minutes for 12 hours beginning at 1:00 AM then it would run every
five minutes from 1:00 AM to 1:00 PM

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Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup.
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