My son left me in a lurch a few years ago by "borrowing" my clock radio. I'm a very sound sleeper so
must be basically jarred out of bed to be wakened so needed something that would make lots of loud,
annoying noise, ( your option ). Being fairly new to the internet and not even knowing if
there was something like this prgm available I thought it was worth looking for anyway and after a
google such found this one and I've never even ask for the old clock radio back.
It's so
simple and easy to use it might be overlooked as being boring but if you're looking for easy of use,
reliability and complete control then you've found what you're looking for right here and you don't
have to be online for it to work.
After installing I looked under options, can't say I
understood much but did adjust transparency as I didn't need the little clock on the desktop, just
the icon in the taskbar. Once that was done all I've ever had to do was right click on the icon, and
pick alarm. The window opens to show you buttons for new, edit, delete and test. Clicking 'new'
opens window to 'reoccurence:' (pick once, daily, weekly, monthly or yearly in drop down menu) date
you want the alarm to work, ( where you will find a calendar if needed) and time you want it to go
off. You can check 'show alarm window' and there's an optional window for description ,if you wish
to use it, for why the alarm is going off,( such as a tv show or cake baking). You pick the sound
you want to use for the alarm by browsing your computer, any WAV sound ( I use messenger's 'online'
wav as it's the most annoying sound I know, on my computer anyway). You are then given a check box
for Execute application, I've never used it but again there's the browse button for that option also
then a box for Shutdown PC after alarm. Click OK, it closes and you're back to the ltttle window you
started at. You can edit at this point if you decide to change anything you did, you can
delete when cleaning out or just change your mind. The test button will set your mind at rest that
you did it right. Make sure the little box is checked next to the time you've set, then and
this is major, be sure a CHECK THE VOLUME ON YOUR SPEAKERS!! lol
This whole thing takes
about 20 seconds and if you've made sure your volume is up, you'll never have to worry about being
late or missing another appt, burn a cake, forget a movie or new tv prgm,....
).