Recent content by Marshall Brooks

Minor update. The computer failed to shut down Thursday night. There was a driver waiting for confirmation to be installed, but that wasn't the issue: I checked the history for the script and it said it ran successfully, but it gave me a message which I looked up which basically said "The...

@pseymour - Thank you that helps. A couple of things leap out at me: First, it only checks every 15 minutes and considers it idle if nothing happened for 90% of the last 15 minutes. So my testing where I set the task to shutdown in 3 minutes from now, could NEVER work. (Although it also didn't...

The issue doesn't appear to be with shutting down the computer - AutoHotKey, Shutdown.exe, ShutdownWithUpdates.exe all appear to do that when run manually or manually from Task Scheduler. The issue appears to be that Task Scheduler thinks the computer is not idle, even if I set it to only need...

I'm marking this as solved, since the original question was solved. I still would like to know what Task Scheduler uses to determine if the system is idle and how I can change this - i.e. apparently now it thinks it is never idle. I would like to have it shut down only if it isn't actively...

Solved - sortof ... I compared my screenshots to @neemobeer's screenshots. Under Conditions, I had "Start the task only if the computer is idle for 1 minute." I unchecked that and it worked perfectly. (I'm not crazy about that, b/c if one of my other tasks is running and takes longer than...

More info: https://dennisbabkin.com/shutdownwithupdates/ I tried ShutdownWithUpdates - same results. It works fine from the command line or when run manually from Task Scheduler, but does not run at the scheduled time. The thing that I'm confused on is why Task Scheduler works for some tasks -...

See Task Scheduler Shutdown · Issue #3 · Marshall-Brooks/Sandbox

I don't seem to be able to upload images ... Will try something else ...

I only want it to run at 8:30, but I added extra times to check if it worked, it doesn't. Above might be an issue, I had it previously set for 5-minutes of idle (when it used to work) and I reduced it to 1 minute when it stopped working, but it didn't help. I probably did have "0" and not "/0"...

Similar issue to Can't get a daily Shutdown working in Task Scheduler... - Except ... This used to work. I want the computer to shut down at 8:30 P.M. on Monday and Thursday only. From the other thread: - S0 is not supported by firmware. - The computer intentionally never enters sleep modes...

Not sure if you'd want to do this, but one option would be to use Windhawk and taskbar styler to hide that menu option - but that would also mean that you wouldn't have the "Safely Remove Hardware" option for any other drives/cards/devices that you installed either.

Disregard Message #140 - it ended up being a simple AHK Script - this is AHK 2.0 and the syntax might be slightly different for AHK 1.0: #SingleInstance Ignore #NoTrayIcon if not ProcessExist("TLBHost.exe") Run "<fullpath>\tlbHost.exe"

@Wisewiz - New Question. I'm using TrueLauchBar Portable and I have a shortcut pinned to the taskbar that opens it. Occasionally, I will click the shortcut again when it is already running and I will get a message asking what toolbar I want to open, since it is already running. Is there an easy...

Just wanted to follow up and say that uninstalling the printer driver, re-installing it with the printer disconnected, connecting the USB cable and then turning the printer on seems to have worked. I didn't try to print anything, but I could view the ink levels and turn the printer off through...

Old thread, but I'm having the same issue. See I have the same printer. The Win 8 drivers worked with it in Windows 10. I did a Win 11 Upgrade in place and the printer no longer works, just says not responding. I haven't tried uninstalling and reinstalling the printer as specified on reddit...