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Time clock app?

Jan 10, 2012 9:54PM PST

Can anyone please direct me to a free app by which I can cause my pc to beep after a preset time? Thanks.

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Jan 10, 2012 11:28PM PST

You gave no mention of your OS. But, if you have Vista or Win7, then look for a "gadget app" that replaces the desktop clock and/or does what you need. These are small pgms. called gadgets that reside on the screen if so active. I have long disabled this feature, but google for gadgets to install into your gadget gallery. For now, I don't recall if available for XP users, gadget apps., but there maybe similar small pgms..

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Jan 11, 2012 12:35AM PST

Yes, thanks.

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That's a 3 line batch file.
Jan 10, 2012 10:08PM PST

First line: sleep (x seconds)
Second line: echo ctrl-G (or alt-7)
Third line: exit

Calling from the command prompt (with x as a parameter) isn't nice. So you make a few batchfiles like beepmin.bat to beep after a minute, beephour to beep after an hour and so on.

This should work, unless you add the requirement that is must be possible to activate it with sleeptime specified in a GUI. You can't really expect such a luxury implementation without asking for it explicitely.

Kees

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Jan 11, 2012 12:36AM PST

Good. Thanks.