I have a web based email application that logs me out after 10 minutes of inactivity (“For security reasons”). I would like to write something that either a) imitates a keystroke b) pings an ip or c) some other option every 9 minutes so that I stay logged in. I am on my personal laptop in an office with a door, so I’m not too worried about needing to be logged out.
I have written a small python script to ping an ip and then sleep for 9 minutes, and this works dandy, but I would like something that I could include in my startup applications. I don’t know if this means I need to compile something into an exe, or can I add this python script to startup apps?
You can also use the Scheduled Tasks feature (on the Control Panel) to run it at startup, or you can change your script to ping the IP and exit, and scheduled it to run every 9 minutes. You have nice settings there, for example, you can stop running it at night, so you’ll still log out.
You might still need the bat file though, I don’t know about Python.
In fact, if you need just a simple ping you can scheduled ping.exe.