Run a powershell script in the background once per minute

Question

I want a powershell script to be run once per minute in the background. No window may appear. How do I do it?

Answer 1

Perhaps this scenario will do. We do not start PowerShell executable every minute (this is expensive, BTW). Instead, we start it once by calling an extra script that calls the worker script once a minute (or actually waits a minute after the worker script exits or fails).

Create the starting Invoke-MyScript.ps1:

for(;;) {
 try {
  # invoke the worker script
  C:\ROM\_110106_022745\MyScript.ps1
 }
 catch {
  # do something with $_, log it, more likely
 }

 # wait for a minute
 Start-Sleep 60
}

Run this from Cmd (e.g. from a startup .bat file):

start /min powershell -WindowStyle Hidden -Command C:\ROM\_110106_022745\Invoke-MyScript.ps1

The PowerShell window appears for a moment but it is minimized due to start /min and just in a moment it gets hidden forever. So that actually only the task bar icon appears for a moment, not the window itself. It's not too bad.