>'cos I don't know how to, so I'm not sure that is a better idea than using two timers.
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>It just seemed appropriate to think of using VFP to do this natively. The batch is not separable into a standalone .exe, its part of the existing app. 'To a guy with a Swiss Army knife every task looks like vehicle maintenance.'
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>I will try to find out how to address Task Scheduler from inside VFP.
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>Cheers


I don't think you can. The Windows Task Scheduler is designed to launch an EXE at a specific time. If you can't pull that code out of your app, you'll have to build your own.