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There are directions hereon how to go to the scheduled tasks folder in winXP and on the menu click "advanced>pause scheduled tasks".

How can I automate that in autohotkey? (ie, is there a single line I can send to the command prompt?)

I want to pause/unpause my scheduled tasks when playing games or watching movies... I searched the forum but didnt see a command line or script that could be run with a hotkey... wondering if its possible with autohotkey to create that...

thanks!

Not sure if you can pause from here but Scheduled Tasks can be run from compsec.



If you cant do it from there pause it directly, run from the built in class.


Once you get it perfected you can (I think) add a Hide to the 3rd parameter of Run (sorry I dont use Scheduled Tasks).

hth

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You may also start and stop the service itself.

thanks guys.

too bad I cant send

It looks like the SC command can pause and continue a service, though I've never tried it.

omg another one overlooked! I will be sllllooowwwly crawling through MS commands now

Thanks for that one jaco0646

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This script is working well. I modelled it on the "disable screen saver" script that I found on the forums here.

Save the following to an ".ahk" file. Run that file when you want to pause your windows scheduled tasks. A system tray icon will appear while the tasks are paused. To unpause, just right click that icon and exit the ahk script.

Thats similar to how the 'disable screen saver' ahk script works. Of course you can modify this to work on a hotkey instead, if you want. (I prefer it as a separate script cuz I use a command line "launchy" style program to launch it).

Nice work jak!

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