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Hi all,

I am trying to schedule a Task that will run a vb script to open a browser, send some keys, and finally close the browser. The task starts, but seems to hang. The task is created as follows:

schtasks.exe /Create /RU "SYSTEM" /SC "DAILY" /MO "1" /ST "23:00" /TN "Open Browser" /TR "C:\somefolder\somescript.vbs"

The script looks like:

Set oShell = WScript.CreateObject("WScript.Shell")

oShell.Exec "iexplore http://localhost/mylocalsite"

WScript.Sleep 10000

oShell.SendKeys "uname"
oShell.SendKeys "{TAB}upassword"
oShell.SendKeys "{ENTER}"

WScript.Sleep 20000

'Close browser'
oShell.SendKeys "^w"

Also, adding c:\program files\internet explorer\ to my path variable allows me to execute iexplore as a command.

Edited by RudyM because: Added detail for clarification. Uncommented.
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Just a thought. Since IE is not usually used for non-interactive tasks, SYSTEM may be the wrong user context.
Also, the new security noted at https://www.autoitscript.com/autoit3/docs/libfunctions/_IECreate.htm can cause the browser to ask a question and you are not there to answer.

PS. This is mainly a guess here. I'm not there to see and duplicate this setup. But I'll share the above and hope.

Edited by rproffitt
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@rproffitt, thanks for the link, but I'm not sure how I could use it in the VBScript. As for the use of "SYSTEM" in a user context, I've also tried using local accounts and have not succeeded.

Also, the script runs without issue when executed manually.

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Think context. Use your account instead of system. I'm sure this has been kicked around many times, since IE is in some non-gui instance, you may find sending keystrokes to fail.

Maybe your goal is to log into a site daily or something. Maybe there are other ways like telnet and other scripts.

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This is related to another problem that seems to solve itself when I log in and view a web-page and finally just close it. I will look into other alternatives, thanks.

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I retried this in a batch file and it worked.

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thanks for sharing this ,
I had same problum but now it solved !!

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