Make a "ding" sound on regular basis

Hi, Win 98 SE.

One of our store managers wants to have his 98 machine
make a "ding" sound every 30 minutes to remind himself to
go check on the restaurant. Strange, yes, I know.

How can I set this up?

Thanks

A really great PIM manager is "Click Tray Calendar"
it's free, it's here
http://www.waseo.de/en/Products/Free...licktray1.html

Repeating alarms can be optioned, see following advice.


With the functions of this window, alarm times and messages for a certain day can be entered, deleted or changed.The
alarm function can now even start and stop programs. After it was started, it will appear and look like this:



In the left upper corner is the alarm list which contains the alarm times with the associated texts. If a line will be
clicked, it appears in the input line below. Right beside is the display of the valid date of the alarms in the list and
below this, there is the month calendar field which will show the days with alarms (here red). The days can be clicked,
so it is easily possible to change to another date. If a day with alarms is clicked, they will be loaded automatically
in the list and shown. Clicking the button lets the month display move back a month, the button a month forward and
the button will switch back the date to the current one. All colours of the month field will be the same like used for
the one at The Calendar Window.

Below that are three tab sheets which can be activated by clicking their names at their top:
1. Data input
2. Repetitions
3. Annual Repetitions

1. Data input:

Below that are two tab sheets which can be activated by clicking their names at their top: Data input and Repetitions.
At the left of the Data input tab sheet is the alarm time field at the left. There the time for an alarm can be
adjusted. At its right is the text input line, that is the place a text for the alarm time can be entered. For getting
it into the list, either the return key or the button can be used. If the time already exists in the list, just the
text of it will be exchanged by the new text (so it is easily possible to modify an alarm text). The alarm type can be
changed by using the alarm type section right beside the input line. Usually, it is set to Message and the entry will
appear with an information symbol in the alarm list. For entering a program to be started at the defined time, switch it
to Program start and enter the complete path plus parameters (to find the path, the button can be used also). The new
entry will get a program symbol in the alarm list. In case the program cannot be found later, an error message will
appear. For stopping a program, switch the alarm type section to Program stop and enter the complete program title (the
one appearing in the title caption at the top of its window) or just a part of it as long as it can be indentified this
way. Note if the application sends a dialog before it closes, e. g. "Are you sure?", the window will not close
automatically. A program to be stopped will get a program stop symbol in the alarm list.

Deleting an alarm can be done by pushing the button , however, it has to be selected before, and the button will
restore all data before last time saving in case a repetition or some modification was performed which should be not be
done this way (of couse, there will be a question dialog before the restoration starts). Also it is possible to print
the alarm list, either directly by pressing the button or by starting a print preview by the button which e. g. looks
like this:

2a) Alarm repetition:

The second tab sheet presents the repetition possibilities. It looks like this:



Repeating alarms is very easy, just follow these steps:

1. Make sure you clicked the line in the alarm list with the alarm to be repeated.

Click the button Next.



2. Then the start date should be entered in section Repeat from and then the end date in Repeat until to specify the
time span. Clicking the button lets the month display move back a month, the button moves forward a month. To fix a
certain day, just click the day number in the calendar month field.

Click the button Next.



3. Then there are several tab sheets in the middle which can be clicked to be activated and used to define the
repetition type:
1. Daily: The alarm will be repeated for every day of the time span. The interval can be entered additionally, e. g. 2
would mean only each second day would get the alarm entry.
2. Weekly: The alarm will be repeated for every week of the time span on a certain week day which can be selected at the
combo box. Similar to the daily repetition, a week interval can be set.

3. Monthly: The alarm will be repeated for every month of the time span on a certain day number, to be selected at the
combo box. If the repetition should be on every last day of the month, select the "End of the month" entry in combo box.
4. Every: This special repetition option can be used to let the alarm be repeated by a special interval, e. g. every 2.
Tuesday of the month. The interval number and the week day can be selected at the combo boxes.
5. Days ahead: The alarm will be repeated after a certain amount of days after the start date which can be entered at
the day number box. The date will be calculated automatically by the program.

Click the button Next.



After clicking the button , a question dialog will appear which asks if the repetition should be really peformed, and by
pushing Yes, it will be done, by No nothing will happen. Attention: There is just one alarm time which can be repeated,
not multiple ones at the same time.

2b) Deleting a repeated alarm:

To delete an existing repeated alarm, the process is almost the same like explained at 2a), which means:

1. Click the line in the alarm list which repesents the alarm which should be deleted.
2. Specify the time span.
3. After all parameters are specified, press the button . The program will now search all days involved with the
repetition for the alam time automatically and will delete it.

3. Annual alarm repetitions:

For adding annual repetitions, the process is the same as explained at 2a), but additionally the little checkbox at the
bottom has to be clicked for getting the checked status. After pressing the button , the programm will add the entry to
the annual repetition list and show the third tab sheet automatically:

If an entry has to be removed, click it and then press the button .

Alarm messages

If an alarm is specified and the time becomes current, an alarm message will appear which can look e. g. like this:



The number box below the message provides the possibility to repeat this alarm later. Just enter a number and that
number of minutes later, the same alarm message will appear again. If no repetition is wanted, just let the number be 0.

Pushing the button will save all entries in the alarm list to the year file and closes the window again.

Days with alarms will get an apostroph in the month field of the calendar window and can be easily recognized this way.

Back to index

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(Remove gum to reply)


"JC" wrote in message ...
| Hi, Win 98 SE.
|
| One of our store managers wants to have his 98 machine
| make a "ding" sound every 30 minutes to remind himself to
| go check on the restaurant. Strange, yes, I know.
|
| How can I set this up?
|
| Thanks

Use Task Scheduler. Make the command:
C:\WINDOWS\sndrec32.exe /play /close C:\Windows\Media\Ding.wav

(There's three spaces in that commend.)

Use Advanced settings to have it run every day at whatever starting time you
want, every 30 minutes, for 23 hours and 59 minutes. Make sure Task Scheduler is
enabled as a startup item (check MSCONFIG startup tab.)

(Note that SNDREC32 resides in the System32 folder on Windows XP and, I assume,
Windows 2000.)

If you have a microphone, you can also use Sound Recorder to record a custom WAV
file--like "HEY! Check the restaurant!"

Or, if you want, it's easy to write a script that not only plays the sound, it
also put up a message box. Let me know if you want one (email me at
) what you want it to say, and if you think perhaps a
different sound would work better.

--
Gary S. Terhune
MS MVP Shell/User

"JC" wrote in message
...
Hi, Win 98 SE.

One of our store managers wants to have his 98 machine
make a "ding" sound every 30 minutes to remind himself to
go check on the restaurant. Strange, yes, I know.

How can I set this up?

Thanks

Thanks, I'll check this for sure.

BTW, do you know if that program loads any *tack-on*
programs which are considered adware/spyware/malware?
I see this all too often.

Thanks

-----Original Message-----
A really great PIM manager is "Click Tray Calendar"
it's free, it's here
http://www.waseo.de/en/Products/Free...teTimeSoftware
/ClickTray1/clicktray1.html

Repeating alarms can be optioned, see following advice.


With the functions of this window, alarm times and
messages for a certain day can be entered, deleted or
changed.The
alarm function can now even start and stop programs.
After it was started, it will appear and look like this:



In the left upper corner is the alarm list which contains
the alarm times with the associated texts. If a line will
be
clicked, it appears in the input line below. Right beside
is the display of the valid date of the alarms in the list
and
below this, there is the month calendar field which will
show the days with alarms (here red). The days can be
clicked,
so it is easily possible to change to another date. If a
day with alarms is clicked, they will be loaded
automatically
in the list and shown. Clicking the button lets the
month display move back a month, the button a month
forward and
the button will switch back the date to the current one.
All colours of the month field will be the same like used
for
the one at The Calendar Window.

Below that are three tab sheets which can be activated by
clicking their names at their top:
1. Data input
2. Repetitions
3. Annual Repetitions

1. Data input:

Below that are two tab sheets which can be activated by
clicking their names at their top: Data input and
Repetitions.
At the left of the Data input tab sheet is the alarm time
field at the left. There the time for an alarm can be
adjusted. At its right is the text input line, that is
the place a text for the alarm time can be entered. For
getting
it into the list, either the return key or the button
can be used. If the time already exists in the list, just
the
text of it will be exchanged by the new text (so it is
easily possible to modify an alarm text). The alarm type
can be
changed by using the alarm type section right beside the
input line. Usually, it is set to Message and the entry
will
appear with an information symbol in the alarm list. For
entering a program to be started at the defined time,
switch it
to Program start and enter the complete path plus
parameters (to find the path, the button can be used
also). The new
entry will get a program symbol in the alarm list. In
case the program cannot be found later, an error message
will
appear. For stopping a program, switch the alarm type
section to Program stop and enter the complete program
title (the
one appearing in the title caption at the top of its
window) or just a part of it as long as it can be
indentified this
way. Note if the application sends a dialog before it
closes, e. g. "Are you sure?", the window will not close
automatically. A program to be stopped will get a program
stop symbol in the alarm list.

Deleting an alarm can be done by pushing the button ,
however, it has to be selected before, and the button will
restore all data before last time saving in case a
repetition or some modification was performed which should
be not be
done this way (of couse, there will be a question dialog
before the restoration starts). Also it is possible to
print
the alarm list, either directly by pressing the button
or by starting a print preview by the button which e. g.
looks
like this:

2a) Alarm repetition:

The second tab sheet presents the repetition
possibilities. It looks like this:



Repeating alarms is very easy, just follow these steps:

1. Make sure you clicked the line in the alarm list with
the alarm to be repeated.

Click the button Next.



2. Then the start date should be entered in section
Repeat from and then the end date in Repeat until to
specify the
time span. Clicking the button lets the month display
move back a month, the button moves forward a month. To
fix a
certain day, just click the day number in the calendar
month field.

Click the button Next.



3. Then there are several tab sheets in the middle which
can be clicked to be activated and used to define the
repetition type:
1. Daily: The alarm will be repeated for every day of the
time span. The interval can be entered additionally, e. g.
2
would mean only each second day would get the alarm entry.
2. Weekly: The alarm will be repeated for every week of
the time span on a certain week day which can be selected
at the
combo box. Similar to the daily repetition, a week
interval can be set.

3. Monthly: The alarm will be repeated for every month of
the time span on a certain day number, to be selected at
the
combo box. If the repetition should be on every last day
of the month, select the "End of the month" entry in combo
box.
4. Every: This special repetition option can be used to
let the alarm be repeated by a special interval, e. g.
every 2.
Tuesday of the month. The interval number and the week
day can be selected at the combo boxes.
5. Days ahead: The alarm will be repeated after a certain
amount of days after the start date which can be entered at
the day number box. The date will be calculated
automatically by the program.

Click the button Next.



After clicking the button , a question dialog will appear
which asks if the repetition should be really peformed,
and by
pushing Yes, it will be done, by No nothing will happen.
Attention: There is just one alarm time which can be
repeated,
not multiple ones at the same time.

2b) Deleting a repeated alarm:

To delete an existing repeated alarm, the process is
almost the same like explained at 2a), which means:

1. Click the line in the alarm list which repesents the
alarm which should be deleted.
2. Specify the time span.
3. After all parameters are specified, press the button .
The program will now search all days involved with the
repetition for the alam time automatically and will
delete it.

3. Annual alarm repetitions:

For adding annual repetitions, the process is the same as
explained at 2a), but additionally the little checkbox at
the
bottom has to be clicked for getting the checked status.
After pressing the button , the programm will add the
entry to
the annual repetition list and show the third tab sheet
automatically:

If an entry has to be removed, click it and then press
the button .

Alarm messages

If an alarm is specified and the time becomes current, an
alarm message will appear which can look e. g. like this:



The number box below the message provides the possibility
to repeat this alarm later. Just enter a number and that
number of minutes later, the same alarm message will
appear again. If no repetition is wanted, just let the
number be 0.

Pushing the button will save all entries in the alarm
list to the year file and closes the window again.

Days with alarms will get an apostroph in the month field
of the calendar window and can be easily recognized this
way.

Back to index

--

(Remove gum to reply)


"JC" wrote in
message ...
| Hi, Win 98 SE.
|
| One of our store managers wants to have his 98 machine
| make a "ding" sound every 30 minutes to remind himself
to
| go check on the restaurant. Strange, yes, I know.
|
| How can I set this up?
|
| Thanks


.

Hi Gary,

I was pretty sure this could be done with the Task
Scheduler. I have been playing with it for a couple of
hours to see if I can get something to work.

I will definitely try the command you posted.

I'm VERY interested in that script you mentioned! I will
send an off-line message shortly.

Thanks for the offer!

-----Original Message-----
Use Task Scheduler. Make the command:
C:\WINDOWS\sndrec32.exe /play /close
C:\Windows\Media\Ding.wav

(There's three spaces in that commend.)

Use Advanced settings to have it run every day at
whatever starting time you
want, every 30 minutes, for 23 hours and 59 minutes. Make
sure Task Scheduler is
enabled as a startup item (check MSCONFIG startup tab.)

(Note that SNDREC32 resides in the System32 folder on
Windows XP and, I assume,
Windows 2000.)

If you have a microphone, you can also use Sound Recorder
to record a custom WAV
file--like "HEY! Check the restaurant!"

Or, if you want, it's easy to write a script that not
only plays the sound, it
also put up a message box. Let me know if you want one
(email me at
) what you want it to say, and if you
think perhaps a
different sound would work better.

--
Gary S. Terhune
MS MVP Shell/User

"JC" wrote in
message
...
Hi, Win 98 SE.

One of our store managers wants to have his 98 machine
make a "ding" sound every 30 minutes to remind himself
to
go check on the restaurant. Strange, yes, I know.

How can I set this up?

Thanks

.

Yeah, I note that the Task Scheduler method isn't pretty--it takes a few beats
to crank up SNDREC32. I also haven't found a list of switches for the app,
particularly the one that makes it "quiet"--so that you don't see the Sound
Recorder panel.

--
Gary S. Terhune
MS MVP Shell/User

"JC" wrote in message
...
Hi Gary,

I was pretty sure this could be done with the Task
Scheduler. I have been playing with it for a couple of
hours to see if I can get something to work.

I will definitely try the command you posted.

I'm VERY interested in that script you mentioned! I will
send an off-line message shortly.

Thanks for the offer!

-----Original Message-----
Use Task Scheduler. Make the command:
C:\WINDOWS\sndrec32.exe /play /close
C:\Windows\Media\Ding.wav

(There's three spaces in that commend.)

Use Advanced settings to have it run every day at
whatever starting time you
want, every 30 minutes, for 23 hours and 59 minutes. Make
sure Task Scheduler is
enabled as a startup item (check MSCONFIG startup tab.)

(Note that SNDREC32 resides in the System32 folder on
Windows XP and, I assume,
Windows 2000.)

If you have a microphone, you can also use Sound Recorder
to record a custom WAV
file--like "HEY! Check the restaurant!"

Or, if you want, it's easy to write a script that not
only plays the sound, it
also put up a message box. Let me know if you want one
(email me at
) what you want it to say, and if you
think perhaps a
different sound would work better.

--
Gary S. Terhune
MS MVP Shell/User

"JC" wrote in
message
...
Hi, Win 98 SE.

One of our store managers wants to have his 98 machine
make a "ding" sound every 30 minutes to remind himself
to
go check on the restaurant. Strange, yes, I know.

How can I set this up?

Thanks

.

the default windows task manager can make a task scheduled to begin any time
and repeat at any interval, it resides in the systray, is already there and
doesnt include bundled spies

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Catalog of removal tools (1) http://www.pandasoftware.com/download/utilities/
Catalog of removal tools (2)
http://www3.ca.com/securityadvisor/n...aspx?CID=40387
Blocking Unwanted Parasites with a Hosts file
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Grateful thanks to the authors/webmasters
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"JC" wrote in message
...
| Hi, Win 98 SE.
|
| One of our store managers wants to have his 98 machine
| make a "ding" sound every 30 minutes to remind himself to
| go check on the restaurant. Strange, yes, I know.
|
| How can I set this up?
|
| Thanks