Personal Daily Reminder Pop-up(can i do this?)

[Waterstone31]

I was wondering if there is a way that when you turn on your computer, a program or a picture will pop-up and give you a reminder that you wanted to be reminded of beforehand.

 

 

 

Ex: In Wednesday on a (insert program,pop-up maker,ect. here) I typed in "Thursday, 4:00pm : Baseball Practice" and then when i turned my computer on the next morning(Thursday morning) something would pop-up and remind me that I had a baseball practice that day.

 

 

 

Does anyone know how i can do this? It would help alot. I am running on Windows XP, and i have a Dell Dimension 3100(Pentium 4). I dont know if that will help though.

[Jain_Charin]

im sure theres some kinda of computer calender program you can d/l for free try searching for one with features that you want

[tunaboy692004]

yeah, theres plenty of programs that do that. http://www.google.com

[Lord_T]

Actually, there is a surprisingly easy way to do this, that does not require any outside programs of your own, one that I actually tripped over by accident one day.

 

 

 

Here it is:

 

1. Open notepad and type the reminder you want to see the next time you boot up your computer.

 

2. Save the file with an easily recognizable name either in a easy to find place so you can find it and move/copy it or directly to where it needs to end up, which is: The startup group! It just so happens that if there is a text file in your startup group, it will open and come up along with everything else that happens when your computer starts up, under Windows XP that would be after you log in.

 

3. Enjoy your homemade reminder!

 

 

 

Just so you know how to get to your startup group, I'll attempt to give you the proper path, and if this isn't exactly like it, it should be very close:

 

 

 

C:\Documents and Settings\Insert your username here\Start Menu\Programs\Startup

 

 

 

If there is more than one user on your computer, each one will have their own unique startup items, as such, go to the directory that corresponds to your account, since if you don't and put it in the all users startup, everyone will see your reminder, or if you put it in another user's startup, someone else will see it, and you won't.

 

 

 

Once you have put it there you can make sure that it is in fact in your startup group by opening the start menu, going to "All Programs" and going to the Startup group on the programs submenu.

 

 

 

After you are done with the reminder, you can change the text of the file in the startup group to be a welcome message or another reminder or just move it out of the startup directory (or hide it, though this is only advisable if you have set your folder options to show hidden files, which most people don't have it set to, so if you don't know, don't hide the file, or you won't see it to get it back again) so that it won't come up at every bootup.

 

 

 

That's it, it's doable in about 30 seconds and it requires no special software, no downloads, and about zero technical knowledge!

 

 

 

Hope it helps. 8-)

[Waterstone31]

Alright, Thanks Alot.