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Turning your Windows Media Player into an alarm clock

Everyone this is Mike from windows, 7 forums. Calm about a year ago, I created a thread regarding turning your Windows Media Player into an alarm clock and I never thought it would be as popular as it became. I knew that some people out there absolutely had to have a problem with their existing alarm clocks, especially after working for certain organizations, but I never thought that it would become as popular as it has and let's pull up the thread real, quick and it would be Windows, Media Player right and alarm clock using task scheduler. I believe that's what it's called all right: yeah, okay, so my alarm clock instructions are pretty complicated. So I'd like to go ahead and create a video for those of you who do have no idea what I'm talking about but would like to be able to turn your Windows Media Player into an alarm clock. There'S a couple of requirements that you need in order for this work. 

First, obviously, you need a speaker system. Secondly, you need at least one song - that's preferably loud to wake you up, since it is in the alarm clock or it will alert you of some sort of meeting or something. So here we go. The first step in creating the alarm clock is going to start search and typing in task scheduler. Okay, now, when you enter task scheduler, you want to go to the test: scheduler library and I'll just zoom in on that for you, if you wan na you're gon na see a whole bunch of stuff here that is automatically generated by different applications. But you want to create a basic task and you can call it whatever you want, but it should be descriptive. 

You want to call it alarm alarm. The alarm is fine. Okay, you go to next, you want it to probably occur every day and yeah. We can have it happen, a couple of minutes from now right and you want it to reoccur every day. Normally, you would put at a time like 7 a.m. 6 a.m. 8, 8, 8 p.m. if you're a night owl. What you want to do is have the application start a program and that program is listed in that thread. So you want to go to window 7 forms and search on that. It will explain to you how to launch Windows Media Player, but for the sake of expedience here, I'm just going to go ahead and throw it right in it's the same exact thing: that's on the website. It should work for most systems and, if it doesn't, you need to find the location of your Windows, Media Player file, the executable file, which shouldn't be too difficult. If you have a problem with that, you should just post it in the forum, then for additional arguments. You want to put the song. 

Unfortunately, I don't have a wide variety of music here right now and we'll pick one song. Hopefully, it won't get edited off YouTube for playing it for 2 seconds in order to demonstrate in a warm clock, but the way the record companies are these days. Who knows the entire account might get closed? Ok, so we'll create this alarm clock, we're finished and guess all what you need to do. Well, you right-click on it. If you want to start it right now and test it out, and what you do is right. Click on alarm under remember we're in task scheduler. Now and you go to run and what happens is we've got Ben Folds 5, which is one of the most. This is a very slow song. It'S not really going to wake you up visit, but will turn it off right now. But what you want to do is make sure that you have it on repeat: ok, whatever song, it is, and you have it on maximum volume, because this is the purpose of an alarm clock is to alert you. 

So you want that to always be the case. Now there was some debate about the properties of the alarm clock and and to get into the properties you right-click on your alarm, clock entry that you created. You go to properties and there's an issue here, because you can have the alarm clock run even when you're not logged on. But if you do that, you kind of run the risk of having the media player run in the background where you can't even see it. On your computer, so you're just going to keep hearing music non-stop and if you really want the ultimate alarm clock, this is the way to do it, because sometimes, if you have your computer configured a certain way, if your computer turns off at night, if you get Logged off after you don't use the computer for a certain amount of time, you're going to want to hit run whether the user is logged on or not and run with the highest privileges. Now, when you do this, and the alarm clock actually turns on it's going to be very hard for you to turn it off you're going to have to go into task scheduler or I'm sorry task manager. 

I don't know why called just call the test cos or getting a little confused myself here we're just test measure. I thought I just launched that here it is ok, so you want to go to task manager, you're gon, na look for WM player, dot, exe. Now, obviously, it's not here now, but if we start the alarm clock, you wouldn't even see the alarm, clock, you'll, see it in alphabetical order down here and what you'll do is hit end process and that'll kill it. Okay. So that's how you deal with that situation, but that's really if you need this reliability of this low arm clocking non-stop, but I just wanted to give people an overview of how to set up the alarm clock a pretty basic way. If you wanted to discuss the details of having it run in the background or not by all means just go to Windows, seven forms comm and you can discuss it there, but I did want to give people an opportunity to discuss the the Windows Media Player, alarm, 

Clock understand how it works and possibly give a wider audience the the chance to set up their own Windows Media Player, alarm clock. I was kind of upset with Windows because I was like well, you know it has all these other features, but it doesn't have an alarm clock where I can just plug in an mp3. Unfortunately, it doesn't yet - and this is one workaround - that people have figured out. You know there's a lot of commercial alarm clocks. You can buy out there. This will save you about twenty or thirty dollars for some software that you know, you really don't need necessarily. So if you have a really great sound system, this is the best alarm clock. You can possibly set up, so I thought I'd give you guys some info on this put in a video saying: it's been a year later, we've gotten about fifteen nineteen thousand views on this one and quite a few responses. So I want to just try to help out in any way I can with this alarm clock business. So hopefully you enjoy the alarm clock visit us at Windows, seven forums, calm thanks a lot for visiting the website, take care.