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I have recently started using Deluge (1.1.0 rc-2) under Windows and am having difficulty getting the scheduling working. I have tried setting up scheduler scripts but they had no effect. I then tried to run the commands from a command prompt and they also had no effect. Also, whenever I tried running them from the command prompt they would kill the "cmd" window they were running in (so I couldn't see the error messages, if there were any).

I started trying "deluge.exe" in the "Scripts" directory but this kept throwing dll not found errors, so I then tried the "deluge.cmd" files in both the "Scripts" and the base deluge install directory.

The following kills the cmd window I am running...
cd C:\Program Files\Deluge
"C:\Program Files\Deluge\deluge.cmd" -u console -a "config --set max_active_limit 0"

The following appears to work when executed (returns to the command prompt without error messages) however I cannot see any effects in the Deluge preferences. Occasionally this will lock up the command prompt.
cd C:\Program Files\Deluge\Scripts
"C:\Program Files\Deluge\Scripts\deluge.cmd" -u console -a "config --set max_active_limit 0"

I am looking in the "queue" preferences page for these settings to change.

I am running Windows XP (No service pack) which has been recently installed. I also have Cygwin installed (I have found that this can affect some programs) but I was not running the scripts from within Cygwin.

Also, this is my first ever experience with BitTorrent so if there is anything dumb I have done, please excuse my ignorance.

Well, I still haven't got it working.

Should I report this as a bug?

there's no point reporting a bug on an outdated version of deluge.
there's currently a new windows version in the works and I recommend trying the scheduling with that when it comes out.
I should also mention that version 1.2 of deluge will have a scheduler plugin.

I upgraded to 1.1.8 and have been trying for a while to get the command line parameters working as per the "Example Commands" section in http://dev.deluge-torrent.org/wiki/UserGuide/Scheduling

None of these seem to work at all.

I am in the directory c:\program files\deluge
The executable in there is "deluge.cmd" which is the same executable that the shortcuts in the start menu point to.

Absolutely none of your examples has any effect whatsoever.

eg, I tried
deluge -u console -a "config"
as the examples indicated that it would print something out, but it just returned to the command prompt. The other examples which are supposed to change the number of connections, etc, were the same and there was no effect on the Deluge daemon.

Have these parameters changed in recent versions and the documentation not been updated?

You mentioned a "new windows version" before, I am now about 7 versions beyond when I originally had the problem and it is still not fixed, haqs this new windows version not fixed it, or is it still coming?