How to execute Windows service at a specified time daily

Question

I need to schedule windows service on daily basis at pre-defined time to run and then sleep till the next day, How can i do that?

Solution:

Added a timer to timeout every 30 minutes and then validate if the time of the day has reached, if yes then perform the desired function, make sure that, mark a flag once its done for the day.

Answer 1

You don't. You setup a scheduled task; services as (generally) for background running processes.

Answer 2

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