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[grbaseball]

I am trying to create script to automatically launch a program at 9:00 am but only on Monday - Friday without the need of pressing any hotkeys. Basically I'd like my work pc to auto launch my main work program before I come into work so its already loaded and ready to go. I am relatively new to autohotkey but have gotten the basics down. I have looked through these forums and done searches but could really only find script that did timed actions (such as launch a process every hour) which doesn't work in my case. I would think there should be some type of command that could do something like this

#persistent
SetTimer, WorkProgram, 1000, 0

WorkProgram:
If {
system time = 09:00:00
A_day = Monday or Tuesday or Wedneday or Thursday or Friday
}
run program.exe
return

Any help or suggestions on script would be greatly appreciated as this is driving me nuts!

[Slanter]

This should work

[Guest]

See this post for a working example http://www.autohotkey.com/forum/post-236933.html#236933

[mikek]

Is there a benefit to using this technique over using the Scheduled Tasks control panel? I ask because I've been using the Scheduled Tasks control panel, and am wondering if the method posted has any advantages.

- Mike

[jaco0646]

[evan]

method without using settimer:

[grbaseball]

I was able to use the code suggested by slanter, however I had to tweak it as it does a check every second to see if the hour is 9 which causes program.exe to get launched every second during the 9am hour. here was what i ended up with: