run when i want it too?

ArmoArmo Mr. Nice Guy Is Dead,Only Aqua Remains Member
edited January 2004 in Folding@Home
how can i make it run in a specified ammout of time, like 12 pm - 8 am? im trying to do it threw windows schelduled tasks but its being stoopip

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  • Straight_ManStraight_Man Geeky, in my own way Naples, FL Icrontian
    edited January 2004
    Um, make it a manual service??? Are you talking about the graphical client or the console client???

    John.
  • ArmoArmo Mr. Nice Guy Is Dead,Only Aqua Remains Member
    edited January 2004
    im pretty sure is the graphical client. i see graphs and atoms :)
  • mmonninmmonnin Centreville, VA
    edited January 2004
    Its the Graphical aka GUI.

    How about a scheduled task in system tools. Should be able to do it that way.
  • ArmoArmo Mr. Nice Guy Is Dead,Only Aqua Remains Member
    edited January 2004
    thats what im trying to get to work, im having some trouble though with the settings
  • Straight_ManStraight_Man Geeky, in my own way Naples, FL Icrontian
    edited January 2004
    Most that want true scheduled runs use the console client. Problem with task scheduler is that the graphical client likes to be shut down from within itself. To turn off, right click cog in taskbar task icon area, choose quit. To turn on, choose the icon in the Startup subarea of your Start Menu, right clcik, and CTRL-DRAG to desktop. You then get, not a shortcut to the startup icon, but a full configurable icon you can put command line extensions in, like the forceSSE switch-- that direct calls the program itself. Shut down and startup at will this way, and if you leave the original ICON in the startup area, then you can simply restart box when done with your busy things that folding client might slow down, and client will autostart.

    IFAIK, client will not shut down from within task scheduler, thus when you get to a start time, you end up trying to RUN TWO COPIES of same client.

    To decrease impact of folding on your box, you can:

    right click the cog in taskbar, set the priority to normal (aka idle), and drop the CPU priority.

    Then close the client with the right-click on cog and quit, restart from your new desktop icon. Client will interfere less with you that way and you can still contribute some and will get more out of client this way than by running 8 bours a day, or 1\3 the time machine is on.

    In other words there are ways to accomplish what you want, but task scheduler is the hard way.

    John.
  • ArmoArmo Mr. Nice Guy Is Dead,Only Aqua Remains Member
    edited January 2004
    basicly i want it to turn on at around 11 pm and then turn off at 7am, would the console version be easier? ive never used that, only the gui version

    lol everything u said whent over my head like spanish
  • muddocktormuddocktor
    edited January 2004
    Another way you might try to run the client is maybe to have the scheduled task start and stop the client is to maybe use the task scheduler to start and stop EMIII and have EMIII start and stop the client from the options in EMIII.
    First, set up EMIII as a scheduled task and see if the task scheduler will correctly start and stop EMIII. If it does that OK, then go into the general options page in EMIII and check "Launch F@H on Startup" and also check "Close F@H window on shut-down" and see if it will correctly perform these tasks. I've never tried this but if the task scheduler will correctly start and stop EMIII, then the folding client should also start and stop correctly. You also might want to check "Hide the F@H Window on start" also. Attached is a pic of the general options page of EMIII.
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