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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

On your Windows 11 or Windows 10 computer, whether you’re trying to use the Task Scheduler to run a task at a specific time or when an event occurs, you can create a task in at least two different ...

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 ...

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 ...

A Windows task scheduler API function does not check permissions – so any potential local bad actor can alter them to gain elevated privileges. A zero-day flaw recently disclosed in Microsoft’s ...

More malware is using Windows Task Scheduler to do its dirty work. Here's how to mitigate this surprising attack vector Malware authors have been using the Windows Task Scheduler (or AT.exe jobs) to ...

How to use Windows 10 Task Scheduler to run Office 365 tasks Your email has been sent Lots of us have recurring tasks that are repeated daily, weekly, monthly—even hourly. Opening a document and ...

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, ...

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 ...

I have a scheduled task set in Windows 7 to run shutdown.exe -s at the end of our work day to shutdown a set of 35 computers. (I had to enter in each task manually on 30+ computers). It was recently ...