Possible ideas?

[dan2071]

Hey all, i am new to this forum. I have a project to do for a friend but i cant quite think how to go around it.

My friend owns a cake shop and has a power point presentation(PPP) running on a huge tv in the shop window. Every morning he has to go to the shop to turn the PPP on and then again at night, he has to go back to turn it off.

He asked me if i could look into making a program to turn off the PPP at a certain time (22:00) and then turn it back on again at another time (8:00)

I was thinking if i could make windows go to sleep at 22:00 and then come out of sleep at 8:00 ?

I can't think what the best way would be.

Any ideas would be much appreciated, Thanks.

Dan

[RhinoBull]

You can run any program on the scheduler - in Windows there is a Task Manager it's available through Control Panel - "Scheduled Tasks").
It's quite simple to use and flexible too.
If ppp file cannot be scheduled then write a simple program to shell it - sample code for shelling any type of files are available throughout the forum.

I would recommend to search for ShellExecute api.

[dan2071]

Ive been searching for days looking for ways of doing it. I cant believe bill made something half useful!

Thanks. Dan