How to make visible reminders in Windows

If you need a convenient and effective reminders on Windows, it is not necessary to resort to third-party programs. As you know, windows is such a thing called "Task Scheduler." It allows you to create simple reminders in the form of small windows, but they have one big drawback.

The fact that these reminders may appear beneath the current open windows. In other words, if you are currently working on, for example, in Windows Explorer, you may receive a reminder for them. In such a situation, a person may simply not pay attention to it.

An alternative way to create reminders using all the same scheduler in conjunction with the command line.

So, start the Task Scheduler (Start -> Programs -> Accessories -> System Tools).

In the resulting window, select Action -> New Task.

In the "General" tab to specify the name for our reminder. It can be anything, but ideally should somehow identify its function. You need to make sure that you select "Run only for registered user" and uncheck the "hidden task."

Go to the tab "Trigger" and create a new trigger. Simply put, it is a condition that initiates the launch of our cunning mechanism. Assign the task of "Scheduled". Specify the time at which the reminder should appear. If necessary, additionally denote intervals for reappearance reminders. We put a check in "Included".

Finally, go to the tab "Actions". If earlier to create a standard reminders we have chosen the action "Output Messages", you now need to select "Run." In the "program or script" write "cmd".

In the "Add arguments" copy this code:

/ C TITLE Reminder Lifehacker & ECHO. & ECHO. & ECHO READ TIME LIFEHACKER & ECHO. & TIMEOUT -1

As you can see, the code is very simple to understand and it is free to be edited to fit your specific needs. TITLE - is the title of the command prompt window, ECHO command allows you to place text after it, and ECHO dot denotes the empty string. Since the code is copied as a single string & icon serves separator lines in the window. The parameter value TIMEOUT, of -1 means that the window will be closed only when the key is pressed. You can make an automatic closing of the window, indicating a positive value in seconds (if we want to window closed in 15 seconds, then write TIMEOUT 15). In this case, the possibility of early closing of the window is stored by pressing the key.

If necessary, you can also add text with some additional relevant information (eg, pasting% TIME% will display in the window, the current system time).

Now our notice looks like this:

The main advantage of such a display of alerts is that the notification window always appears on top of all other windows and it is much more difficult to miss.