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Instructions: Setting Up Your iSilo to Run with Windows Scheduler
Note: I use Windows ME. From what I’ve seen this is pretty much the same for each version of the recent Windows OS. If not, we'll all learn to adjust and help each other.
Important: For this you will need to fetch and install
iSiloXC.
Ok. Open up your Control Panels.
Open ‘Scheduled Tasks’.
Click on ‘Add a Scheduled Task’.
The Wizard should run.
In the pop-up, choose ‘iSiloXC’ (if you don’t see it, browse and find where you put it on your hard drive. It’s probably in C:\Program Files\iSilo\iSiloX\ Make sure you choose ‘iSiloXC’ and NOT ‘iSiloX’. Big difference.)
Hit ‘Next’.
In the next dialogue, you need to decide what you want to call your task at the top. For the sake of this example, let’s call it ‘iSilo’.
Then you need to decide when you want to run your task. For this example, let’s try ‘One Time Only’ for yuks. Hit ‘Next’.
In the next dialogue key it up for a few minutes into the future so we can see its stuff. Hit ‘next’.
Note: When you’re done this will place an icon into your ‘Scheduled Tasks’ folder called ‘iSilo’.
Double click on this icon.
This is the important part. Wake up.
Change the ‘Run’ line to:
"C:\Program Files\iSilo\iSiloX\iSiloXC.exe" -x "C:\WINDOWS\Desktop\iSilo.ixl" -u
Change the ‘Start in’ line to:
"C:\Program Files\iSilo\iSiloX\iSiloXC.exe"
Very Important: You
need the quotes for this. Do it
exactly as it appears above.
Just make sure that iSiloXC is in the correct directory above and that the .ixl file you’re trying to call is in the directory you’re trying to call.
Note that in this example, my ‘iSilo.ixl’ is on my Desktop; my iSiloXC application file is in the iSiloX folder within the iSilo directory under Program Files (this makes sense if you look at the directory tree).
Your example iSilo.ixl file should run at the specified time automatically. It will popup as a DOS Command line event and start downloading the files.
Play around with the scheduling times and figure out what works for you. Ask questions if you need help...
... and happy reading!
