Windows 7 Task Scheduler.

I want to use the downloading program "eMule" but only in the offpeak
hours 1.00am to 9.00am, in which I have a lower cost rate from the
ISP.

I can start the program easily enough with task scheduler but there
seems no way of switching it off.

To switch eMule on at 1.00am I:

1/ Go to Task Scheduler.

2/ Select "Create Basic Task" on the right.

3/ Use the "Create Basic Task Wizard" in which there is a "Start
Program" option, and this is the one I use. But there's no
corresponding "Stop Program" and this seems strange.

How does one turn off a program via the Task Scheduler"?

Peter

In article <>, Peter Jason at
says...
>
> I want to use the downloading program "eMule" but only in the offpeak
> hours 1.00am to 9.00am, in which I have a lower cost rate from the
> ISP.
>
> I can start the program easily enough with task scheduler but there
> seems no way of switching it off.
>
> To switch eMule on at 1.00am I:
>
> 1/ Go to Task Scheduler.
>
> 2/ Select "Create Basic Task" on the right.
>
> 3/ Use the "Create Basic Task Wizard" in which there is a "Start
> Program" option, and this is the one I use. But there's no
> corresponding "Stop Program" and this seems strange.
>
> How does one turn off a program via the Task Scheduler"?
>
> Peter

"Stop the Task if it Runs Longer Than" under settings

--
Zaidy

On Sun, 21 Aug 2011 21:47:14 -0400, Zaidy036
<> wrote:

>In article <>, Peter Jason at
> says...
>>
>> I want to use the downloading program "eMule" but only in the offpeak
>> hours 1.00am to 9.00am, in which I have a lower cost rate from the
>> ISP.
>>
>> I can start the program easily enough with task scheduler but there
>> seems no way of switching it off.
>>
>> To switch eMule on at 1.00am I:
>>
>> 1/ Go to Task Scheduler.
>>
>> 2/ Select "Create Basic Task" on the right.
>>
>> 3/ Use the "Create Basic Task Wizard" in which there is a "Start
>> Program" option, and this is the one I use. But there's no
>> corresponding "Stop Program" and this seems strange.
>>
>> How does one turn off a program via the Task Scheduler"?
>>
>> Peter
>
>"Stop the Task if it Runs Longer Than" under settings



Thanks. I'd really be lost without this newsgroup.

Peter

On 21/08/2011 9:25 PM, Peter Jason wrote:
> I want to use the downloading program "eMule" but only in the offpeak
> hours 1.00am to 9.00am, in which I have a lower cost rate from the
> ISP.
>
> I can start the program easily enough with task scheduler but there
> seems no way of switching it off.

Emule has it's own scheduler which lets you set upload and download
limits at whatever hours of the week you choose.

Yousuf Khan

Yousuf Khan wrote:
> On 21/08/2011 9:25 PM, Peter Jason wrote:
>> I want to use the downloading program "eMule" but only in the
>> offpeak hours 1.00am to 9.00am, in which I have a lower cost rate
>> from the ISP.
>>
>> I can start the program easily enough with task scheduler but there
>> seems no way of switching it off.
>
> Emule has it's own scheduler which lets you set upload and download
> limits at whatever hours of the week you choose.

I don't even have emule, and it took me about five minutes to find this
on the emule web site, http://www.emule-project.net:

http://www.emule-project.net/home/pe...c&topic_id=117

I wish people would RTFM before posting questions.
--
Crash

"When you get to a fork in the road, take it."
~ Yogi Berra ~

On Wed, 24 Aug 2011 01:11:01 -0400, Yousuf Khan
<> wrote:

>On 21/08/2011 9:25 PM, Peter Jason wrote:
>> I want to use the downloading program "eMule" but only in the offpeak
>> hours 1.00am to 9.00am, in which I have a lower cost rate from the
>> ISP.
>>
>> I can start the program easily enough with task scheduler but there
>> seems no way of switching it off.
>
>Emule has it's own scheduler which lets you set upload and download
>limits at whatever hours of the week you choose.
>
> Yousuf Khan

I tried this, but eMule seems to allow a trickle of uploads even when
dormant.

Anyway the Windows Task Scheduler is common to all the torrent
software and so removes the need to struggle with all their
intricacies.

On 24/08/2011 6:25 PM, Peter Jason wrote:
> On Wed, 24 Aug 2011 01:11:01 -0400, Yousuf Khan
> <> wrote:
>> Emule has it's own scheduler which lets you set upload and download
>> limits at whatever hours of the week you choose.
>>
>> Yousuf Khan
>
> I tried this, but eMule seems to allow a trickle of uploads even when
> dormant.
>
> Anyway the Windows Task Scheduler is common to all the torrent
> software and so removes the need to struggle with all their
> intricacies.

I think that's probably just Emule allowing other computers to scan your
available files list, and putting them on hold till later.

Yousuf Khan