Autoit Script Fails On Win2000 Schedule

[Guest Sair]

My autoscript starts an application, sends keystrokes to the application to perform a repetative administration task, and then ends the application.

If I log on, and run the script (either manually or on a schedule) it works fine. However, this task needs to run every 5 mins at the server console, I cannot leave the server console logged in and if I log out the script starts but then fails to find the correct window title/text (even though the application starts as there's a process shown in task manager).

Any suggestions to 'cure' the problem?

Thanks

[trids]

If you use Windows Task Scheduler, you can have it log in with a specific userID and password. Might be worth exploring

HTH

[ezzetabi]

If you start a script when the computer is logged off Autoit cant send keystrokes. You have to use controls.

[scriptkitty]

Aye, look at the controlsend, controlclick, etc section. You can set it to repeat every 5 min or so with a @min or such and a loop.

[miki_red]

You can use pslist.exe (http://www.sysinternals.com) to see if one process is running or not:

pslist.exe > c:\procs.txt