Hi -- thanks David. Yes, I've been googling this morning and found this:
http://www.howtogeek.com/119028/how-...automatically/
which I've also set up with this:
http://www.sevenforums.com/software/...ndows-7-a.html
so that my PC doesn't go to sleep in the middle of the download (the NY Times is Slllooooowww).
I've got it scheduled starting from tomorrow morning, so fingers crossed that it works.
Thanks