[python-win32] Interacting with the desktop as a service onVista

[Sidnei da Silva]

On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 2:54 PM, Steven James <steven.james at gmail.com> wrote:
> Because I like fun stuff and knowing that people at cisco use hacks like
> this, here you go, this should work...
>
> (cut to snippets because of length)
> http://snippets.dzone.com/posts/show/6324
>
> As mentioned before, the basic process is to create a disabled Scheduled
> Task. When you are ready to run it, you enable it, run it, then disable it
> again. You can supply the credentials. I tried to make everything a variable
> in the above post. Does not run under Windows XP (there wasn't a Task
> Scheduler COM interface in XP AFAIK).

I haven't tried your snippet, but we definitely have used COM to
create Scheduled Tasks on Windows all the way back to Windows 2000. I
suspect it does work on Windows XP unless it uses some new feature in
Vista.

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