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eschwartz · 12-30-2013, 02:52 PM

You could always run that as a bat script. Only two command-line commands are needed:

calibre.exe --shutdown-running-calibre
msiexec /i http://status.calibre-ebook.com/dist/win32

or use win64 for the 64-bit version. No need for compiling a program to do the same thing, since msiexec can use an http location. It is (obviously) 64-bit compatible, you can switch it yourself in 8 seconds.

Then if you really need to, you can also add this as a scheduled task, to run every week at 5:00 AM Friday, just hours after it is usually released and in the middle of the night when you're not up anyway.

Based on the discussion here (although it was for linux): https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...3&postcount=24

You could always modify that script into a bat script. It was mainly for testing to see if the latest version was installed. The whole discussion was pretty cool though.

12-30-2013, 02:52 PM	#12
eschwartz Ex-Helpdesk Junkie Posts: 19,422 Karma: 85397180 Join Date: Nov 2012 Location: The Beaten Path, USA, Roundworld, This Side of Infinity Device: Kindle Touch fw5.3.7 (Wifi only)	You could always run that as a bat script. Only two command-line commands are needed: calibre.exe --shutdown-running-calibre msiexec /i http://status.calibre-ebook.com/dist/win32 or use win64 for the 64-bit version. No need for compiling a program to do the same thing, since msiexec can use an http location. It is (obviously) 64-bit compatible, you can switch it yourself in 8 seconds. Then if you really need to, you can also add this as a scheduled task, to run every week at 5:00 AM Friday, just hours after it is usually released and in the middle of the night when you're not up anyway. Based on the discussion here (although it was for linux): https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...3&postcount=24 You could always modify that script into a bat script. It was mainly for testing to see if the latest version was installed. The whole discussion was pretty cool though. Last edited by eschwartz; 12-30-2013 at 02:57 PM.