I have a task that I want run daily, starting at 10am and repeat every 15
minutes for 6 hours. So that's exactly how I enter it in the Trigger page.
The problem is the task runs every 15 minutes and continues to run around
the clock. I don't understand it. I had no problem setting this task up in
XP...

I'm having the same problem here!! task starting every weekday, from 8:00
repeating every hour for 10 hours (stockquotes :))
And it keeps on going all nite long....

HELP please

Ruud

"sm02463" wrote:
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> I have a task that I want run daily, starting at 10am and repeat every 15
> minutes for 6 hours. So that's exactly how I enter it in the Trigger page.
> The problem is the task runs every 15 minutes and continues to run around
> the clock. I don't understand it. I had no problem setting this task up in
> XP...[/color]

Its not bug - just a change in feature.
Scheduler wont care at what time the task was "supposed" to start, but whenever the task does start, it'll repeat it every xx minutes for a duration of xx hrs from THAT instant - when the task did start - irrespective of its *actual* start time.

Try setting repeat every 1 minute for a duration of 5 minutes. And set the starting time couple of hours earlier than current time and manually start the task - it'll repeat itself every next minutes four more times - just as expected.

I had same trouble, then I saw this :
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I don't know if this is needed anymore, but heres a workaround :

Suppose I have to run a task every 15 minutes from 8am to 8pm
i'll set my clock to show time in [B]24-HRS HH:mm[/B] format from regional settings in control panel.

Then I'll make a bat file that checks whether current time is between 8:00 and 20:00 hrs and put my task command there as follows

@echo off
FOR /F "tokens=*" %%R IN ('time /T') DO SET time=%%R
set HR=%time:~0,2%
if %HR% geq [B][U]8[/U][/B] if %HR% leq [B][U]19[/U][/B] goto main
goto exit
:main

rem put your desired command(s) here
rem for eg to run calculator, :
calc.exe

:exit
rem program ends here

see that 8 and 19 are bold and undrlined because i want task to run betweek 8 hrs and 20 hrs, so you can change those values accordingly.

I understand that OP may not be interested at all now, given it was asked a year ago but i just googled and found so many other posts about the same topic so I guess this might help someone.

MurkMenthaa <murkmenthaa******.com> wrote:
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>I don't know if this is needed anymore, but heres a workaround :[/color]

The fact that the post you have chosen to reply to is dated a YEAR AGO
is a certain clue, except to the clueless.

MurkMenthaa <murkmenthaa******.com> wrote:
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>I don't know if this is needed anymore, but heres a workaround :[/color]

The fact that the post you have chosen to reply to is dated a YEAR AGO
is a certain clue, except to the clueless.