Andy Dalton Posted July 31, 2006 Report Share Posted July 31, 2006 I know it's a small request, but is there any way to have a macro starting up and ready to be active upon the next available hour? I have a macro which I intend to run 5 minutes after the hour, every hour. It would be great to have it work from the moment I boot my PC instead of having it become active the hour after. The way it operates at the moment is when I have a scheduled macro I have to specify a start time. Then it waits a whole hour and 5 minutes before coming active. It would be cool if it was just plain 'active' as soon as macro express was loaded up. If I can't have it like that now, how about implementing it as a feature in later macro expresses? I'm sure it couldn't be that hard! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joe Posted August 1, 2006 Report Share Posted August 1, 2006 I have not tested the following, but it should work just fine. Create another macro with a single Run Macro <your :05 macro> command line. Set the schedule to Run on Startup. When you reboot your computer, the newly created macro will run, which in turn, runs your scheduled :05 macro one time. And the :05 macro will continue to fire from then on at its scheduled time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andy Dalton Posted August 6, 2006 Author Report Share Posted August 6, 2006 Thanks for the tip, I haven't tried it yet since I have a laptop (which just goes into suspend mode and I doubt will trigger that macro). Another problem I seem to have is: The macro stops after midnight. No idea why, it just does! It appears the infinite loop is not quite so infinite after all! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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