Setting up cron in windows without getting a popup?

Question

I know that the scheduler can be used to create a cron job, but in my case, that job involves accessing a url. Problem is, if I use WGET or a batch file, a window keeps popping up. Any suggestions on how to get passed this?

Answer 1

Yes, indeed. I'd like to cross link you to a site, where this has been discussed while just pasting.

C:\> at [\\machine] HH:MM[A|P] [/every:day] "command"

Furthermore schtasks might be of help. You might want to use curl within a script. It has a specific "silent" function.

Answer 2

Create a batch file that does what you want. Let's say it's called doit.bat. Create a file doit.vbs in the same directory. It should have the following contents:

CreateObject("Wscript.Shell").Run """doit.bat""", 0, False

Set the scheduler to run doit.vbs.