XPost: alt.comp.os.windows-10   
   From: nospam@needed.invalid   
      
   On Thu, 6/5/2025 11:51 PM, Hank Rogers wrote:   
   > Jan K. wrote on 6/5/2025 9:59 PM:   
   >> What's a decent free simple program that runs alarms on the PC?   
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   > Look in windows start menu. It's called "alarms and clock".   
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       https://i.postimg.cc/MKhD9Xgm/W11-Alarm.gif   
      
   You can see the warnings at the bottom of that settings panel,   
   that the Microsoft solution is a half-baked-cake. It doesn't   
   use or configure "wake timers", nor does it make   
   a Task Scheduler entry so that the computer is in   
   the right waking state, to be running that Alarm in the picture.   
   Using Task Scheduler ? prepare for hair loss :-) who knows, does   
   the screen have to be unlocked, for the computer speakers   
   to play an alarm sound > There are a lot of what-if issues,   
   even if you leave the computer running for this to work.   
   I would allocate one week of designer-test, to make   
   sure the alarm solution will actually work on a critical day.   
      
   Occams razor, says to use a wind up alarm clock. Even if   
   there is a nuclear EMP, you will still be awakened at   
   the regular time :-) A PC is too ponderous a platform,   
   to be making a clock out of it. It will always find   
   a way to foul up on you.   
      
      Paul   
      
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