# Windows clock to remind me to stretch every hour or so? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [July 4, 2006, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/windows-clock-to-remind-me-to-stretch-every-hour-or-so/363172 "2006-07-04T16:44:28Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Revtim](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/revtim/32/1042_2.png) [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2006, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/windows-clock-to-remind-me-to-stretch-every-hour-or-so/363172/1 "2006-07-04T16:44:28Z")
Any recommendations for a free Windows XP program to remind me every hour or so to get up and stretch? Thanks. ---
**Author:** ![Astroboy14](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/df705f/32.png) [@Astroboy14](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Astroboy14)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2006, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/windows-clock-to-remind-me-to-stretch-every-hour-or-so/363172/2 "2006-07-04T17:35:15Z")
Someone posted some code here a few months ago for a quickie DOS program that would cause your computer to beep every so often; by changing the time parameter you could cause it to beep every hour. I can’t find it though! If you have no answer by the time I get home, I’ll dig the code up and post it for you. ---
**Author:** ![Revtim](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/revtim/32/1042_2.png) [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2006, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/windows-clock-to-remind-me-to-stretch-every-hour-or-so/363172/3 "2006-07-04T17:49:57Z")
I’ve since found this: [http://www.timeleft.info/](http://www.timeleft.info/) looks pretty good, the free version is likely enough for me. Thanks though! ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Bird](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/3ec8ea/32.png) [@Little\_Bird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Bird)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2006, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/windows-clock-to-remind-me-to-stretch-every-hour-or-so/363172/4 "2006-07-04T23:30:27Z")
I’ve always been a fan of [Chameleon Clock](http://www.softshape.com/software/desktop/chamclock/features/). It’s super cute and I loved the free version so much I bought the licensed version. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Adoptamom\_II](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/7ba0ec/32.png) [@Adoptamom\_II](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Adoptamom_II)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2006, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/windows-clock-to-remind-me-to-stretch-every-hour-or-so/363172/5 "2006-07-05T01:41:06Z")
If you use Outlook for your email you can always set up the reminder up as a recurring task. ---
**Author:** ![Astroboy14](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/df705f/32.png) [@Astroboy14](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Astroboy14)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2006, 2:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/windows-clock-to-remind-me-to-stretch-every-hour-or-so/363172/6 "2006-07-05T02:32:56Z")
Sounds like you’re covered, but for what it’s worth, here’s the code I was referring to earlier: :START START/min sndrec32 /play /close %windir%\media\ding.wav ping -n 5 127.0.0.1 goto START Cut and paste that into a blank notepad document, then save it to your desktop with a name that has the extension “.bat”. When you double-click on it, it will cause your computer to beep once about every 5 seconds… change the 5 in the line “ping -n 5 127.0.0.1” to 360, and it should beep about once an hour. I’d credit the person that wrote it, but I can’t remember who it was! ---
**Author:** ![chrisk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6de8d8/32.png) [@chrisk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chrisk)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2006, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/windows-clock-to-remind-me-to-stretch-every-hour-or-so/363172/7 "2006-07-05T23:13:16Z")
> [@Astroboy14](#): > > Sounds like you’re covered, but for what it’s worth, here’s the code I was referring to earlier: > > :START > START/min sndrec32 /play /close %windir%\media\ding.wav > ping -n 5 127.0.0.1 > goto START > Cut and paste that into a blank notepad document, then save it to your desktop with a name that has the extension “.bat”. When you double-click on it, it will cause your computer to beep once about every 5 seconds… change the 5 in the line “ping -n 5 127.0.0.1” to 360, and it should beep about once an hour. I’d credit the person that wrote it, but I can’t remember who it was! 360 secounds would be 6 minutes. once an hour is 3600. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Revtim](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/revtim/32/1042_2.png) [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2006, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/windows-clock-to-remind-me-to-stretch-every-hour-or-so/363172/8 "2006-07-05T23:54:51Z")
Thanks everybody.