How to build recurring Power Automate desktop

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Posted on 22 Aug 2024 22:34:28 by godala_vamshi

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Is it possible to build a recurring flow in Desktop flow similar to the cloud flows? We want to run a PowerShell script every week on a specific day, we don’t want to use the task scheduler.

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eetuRobo 3,273 Super User 2025 Season 1 on 07 Sep 2024 at 12:10:32

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Why would you not want to use task scheduler?

Do you mean that you want to have Power Automate Desktop flow to run infinitely to check every day if its the day you want to run the PowerShell script? That would be very drain a lot of resources from the machine to have a flow running in the background at all times when its not really doing anything most of the time.

Screenshot of the flow seems not right or I just don't understand it. The loop has nothing in it so when you start the flow it should run that PowerShell script once and then do nothing (other than wait for 120s and do a loop for 4 times with no actions in it). You might want to move the Run PowerShell script and Wait 120s -actions inside the loop.
godala_vamshi 174 on 06 Sep 2024 at 17:58:34

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How to build recurring Power Automate desktop

Thanks for all the answers @Nived_Nambiar @SharonS @srduval.
I am looking for options to schedule within the Desktop flow instead of using Cloud flow to run desktop flow or Windows task manager. I tried something like below, this works fine for couple loops but then it just stops.
SharonS 164 on 25 Aug 2024 at 22:18:38

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How to build recurring Power Automate desktop

adding to what Nivid said, you can do that but but you need a Power Automate Premium license (this license comes with attended RPA). As you can see that action is a premium feature.
srduval 1,663 Super User 2025 Season 1 on 25 Aug 2024 at 12:11:51

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How to build recurring Power Automate desktop

There are also articles online about a power shell or similar invocation that can be used with windows scheduler
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Nived_Nambiar 17,570 Super User 2025 Season 1 on 25 Aug 2024 at 03:17:05

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How to build recurring Power Automate desktop

You can create the recurring cloud flow and then ran the desktop flow like below

Other possibility includes creating a shortcut key for that flow using its settings or by executing the shortcut. This can be done via either cmd or powershell script but needs to be scheuled by task scheduler finally.

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