It's a little early in the morning for this, but Windows Task Scheduler (W2K Server, SP4) is driving me bonkers.<BR><BR>We're trying to get a FileMaker database to start up every night so that it can ...

Security researchers have discovered a serious privilege escalation bug in Microsoft's Windows task scheduler that could let hackers get administrative access to a Windows system. The vulnerability ...

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 ...

Unleash your inner power user with these lesser-known Windows tools and third-party add-ons.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...