Scheduled task to open URL

Question

At a certain time each day, I'd like my browser to pop open a tab to a certain URL.

My goals:

1. be able to set the URL from the scheduled task
2. use the default browser (rather than hard-coding it)

I can't seem to accomplish both of these goals at once. I'll post my partial solutions as answers, but I'm hoping someone will have something better.

Answer 1

Note that this command will open the default browser (or a new tab therein) to the given url:

cmd /c start http://example.com

To create a scheduled task without the command window popping up:

Create OpenUrl.vbs:

CreateObject("Wscript.Shell").Run "cmd /c start " & Wscript.Arguments.Item(0), 0, False

Then call it from a scheduled task with this command:

wscript.exe "C:\Path\To\Script\OpenUrl.vbs" http://example.com