{"id":229,"date":"2018-06-29T00:09:10","date_gmt":"2018-06-29T08:09:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gmrgames.com\/blog\/?p=229"},"modified":"2022-02-15T03:39:54","modified_gmt":"2022-02-15T11:39:54","slug":"how-to-only-run-a-program-when-your-laptop-is-plugged-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rose.dev\/blog\/2018\/06\/29\/how-to-only-run-a-program-when-your-laptop-is-plugged-in\/","title":{"rendered":"How to only run a program when your laptop is plugged in"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here’s a tricky one. How do you run a program or exe ONLY when your Windows laptop is plugged in? Additionally, you’d want it to automatically exit when your laptop was unplugged and you were using battery power. I recently stumbled across this problem when I wanted to run Rainmeter<\/a> on my laptop when it’s plugged in.<\/p>\n

The answer is to use the Task Scheduler<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Here’s what you’ll need to do.<\/p>\n

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  1. Open Task Scheduler.<\/li>\n
  2. Click “Create Task…” under Task Scheduler Library<\/em>.<\/li>\n
  3. Name your task and give it a description.<\/li>\n
  4. If your application needs admin privileges, make sure to check the box at the bottom, “Run with highest privileges”<\/li>\n
  5. Open the Triggers<\/em> tab at the top. Click “New…” at the bottom.<\/li>\n
  6. Change the Begin the<\/em> task<\/em> value to “On an event”.<\/li>\n
  7. Under “Settings”, change the radio button selection from “Basic” -> “Custom”.<\/li>\n
  8. Click “New Event Filter…”.<\/li>\n
  9. Disregard the “Filter” tab, and instead change the tab to “XML”.<\/li>\n
  10. Check the box at the bottom that states “Edit query manually”.<\/li>\n
  11. Paste this XML in:<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
    <QueryList>\n  <Query Id=\"0\" Path=\"System\">\n    <Select Path=\"System\">*[EventData[Data[@Name='AcOnline']='true']]<\/Select>\n  <\/Query>\n<\/QueryList><\/code><\/pre>\n
    Click “OK”, and then “OK” again.<\/p>\n
    Once back on the main page, you may now configure your “Actions” tab to launch your program of choice.<\/p>\n
    Once finished, proceed to the settings tab and make sure you have these settings:<\/p>\n
    <\/p>\n
    Congratulations! You can now test it by plugging in your laptop and watching your program launch itself. Unplugging it should quit it instantly.<\/p>\n
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    Here’s a tricky one. How do you run a program or exe ONLY when your Windows laptop is plugged in? Additionally, you’d want it to automatically exit when your laptop was unplugged and you were using battery power. I recently stumbled across this problem when I wanted to run Rainmeter on my laptop when it’s … Continue reading How to only run a program when your laptop is plugged in<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[959,964,955,965,960,956,961,954,957,953,958,951,952,963,962],"class_list":["post-229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-ac-adapter","tag-battery","tag-charging","tag-check","tag-connected","tag-exe","tag-execute","tag-in","tag-laptop","tag-plugged","tag-power","tag-program","tag-run","tag-scheduler","tag-task"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rose.dev\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rose.dev\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rose.dev\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rose.dev\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rose.dev\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=229"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rose.dev\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1268,"href":"https:\/\/rose.dev\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229\/revisions\/1268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rose.dev\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rose.dev\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rose.dev\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}