Scheduled tasks on WinXP

[jalyons]

When you schedule a program to run a task, is there a way you can have that program exit after the scan using WinXP's Scheduled Tasks? My anti-spyware programs (one's ZoneAlarm Anti-spyware...the other's Norton Antivirus 2006) run the quick scans just fine as scheduled, but I can't find anywhere in their options to have them exit when they're through...and I also don't see anywhere in Scheduled Tasks where that can be done. Any ideas would be sooo appreciated.

[cozofdeath]

I don't think you can with out 3rd party scheduling app. You could run something like this but,

cmd.exe C:\Program Files\Zone Labs\ZoneAlarm\multiscan C:\ && tskill ???????

you would have to terminate the zlclient (main program) to exit it. Nortons probably about the same. They don't allow many commands for security reasons.

[jalyons]

Ohhh, I see.

Well, thanks for the reply anyway. Guess it's not gonna kill me to walk over and close the program when it's done...the important thing is that it does the job.

I don't think you can with out 3rd party scheduling app. You could run something like this but,

cmd.exe C:\Program Files\Zone Labs\ZoneAlarm\multiscan C:\ && tskill ???????

you would have to terminate the zlclient (main program) to exit it. Nortons probably about the same. They don't allow many commands for security reasons.