How to schedule a windows task to repeat every day within a time range?

Question

In Windows 7, how to schedule a task which repeats every hour, every day but within a time range. I have a script which needs to run everyday from 08:00 to 20:00 in 1 hour interval.Could not find any solution even after googling.Anybody tried something similar? Any hints?

Answer 1

The Task Scheduler does this all by itself... When you add a trigger to tell the task when to run, it's available as an advanced option.

Answer 2

The 12 hour duration each day is supported in the UI, for others you need to use the command line. You set the recur to daily and the repeat + duration for how often and for how long you want the tasks to run during that day.

The trigger summary ends up as:

Answer 3

You could look into the "schtask" command on the command promt (if you type help on command prompt you will see it listed). Assuming I understand your question correctly, this is what you want to type:

schtasks /create /tn (whatever Task Name you want to call it) /tr (location full of the file) /sc hourly /st 08:00:00 /et 20:00:00 /sd (start date that you want mm/dd/yyyy)

Answer 4

Have you looked into using Windows Scheduled Tasks?