In Windows XP the Task Scheduler was easy to deal with. Anyone could look at it (Control Panel -> Scheduled Tasks) and easily understand which tasks were scheduled and when they ran. Windows 7 ...

Everyone knows that you're supposed to defragment your Windows hard drives regularly, right? A defragmented hard drive means quicker access times, less bugginess, and all-around healthier drives. Even ...

Configured a GPO to use GP to push a scheduled task to a bunch of machines [Win7 clients]. Task pushes, even runs! ... for awhile. Task is triggered for user logon and run every 5 minutes thereafter ...

Windows only: Freebyte Task Scheduler is a free and portable task-scheduling application. If you're looking to round out your suite of portable applications or find yourself locked out of accessing ...

Hello all,<BR><BR>I have built an ASP.Net 2.0 web application that does some queries on some data and sends the results to some recipients.<BR><BR>I used to start this task by clicking on a button, ...

Tired of repeating the same routine tasks on your PC? With Task Scheduler, you can automate everything from daily cleanups to launching your favorite apps at startup. It’s built into Windows and ...

The Windows Task Scheduler automates tasks by running specific actions every time a certain condition occurs such as a period of time passing or a user logging on. By creating scheduled tasks, you can ...

One of the best parts of owning a PC isn’t downloading videos, sending email, or playing games. If you ask me, the best tool for your computer is automation. Get it to do some of the mundane things ...

Windows 10 is set to mark a sea change in the way Microsoft’s OS works, but even the modern-looking Windows 8.1 carries a bunch of legacy tools and apps that you may not know about. One of those is ...

An unpatched local privilege escalation zero-day vulnerability in Windows 10 received a temporary patch today. The fix is delivered through the 0patch platform and can be applied on systems without ...

Malware developers have started to use the zero-day exploit for Task Scheduler component in Windows, two days after proof-of-concept code for the vulnerability appeared online. A security researcher ...