task management

I have an issue, i have just started a Windows 7 Migration Project and i was originally brought in to do GPO, now i have bene asked to do something else and i am a little stuck. Basically we still run Windows XP on most of our machines but will start migrating over to 7 soon. We run a batch...

When I right-click on a JPG file then select Properties/Details and hover the cursor over the right half of the Comments row the expanded comments won't display for longer than 5 seconds. I've already tried increasing the Control Panel/Ease of Access Center/Make it easier to focus on...

I am accessing a remote computer through regular remote desktop. I have admin rights and all that good stuff and can schedule tasks. The problem that I'm having is when I select the option to "Run whether user is logged on or not" it does not work. It shows in the status as "Running". Even if I...

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Link Removed How did they expect people to drag and drop a new folder without adding it to an existing one? No one can tell me they weren't going out of their way to make this as bad as possible. "List" is the only view that doesn't have these god damn rectangles, but then it's just one big...

Occasionally, I run into a process that won't die, even though the associated app has been closed, and even using the Task Manager"s "End Process" or "End Process Tree" fails to effect the process. That only way I've found to kill it is by rebooting, but of course, that is often very...

Hi everybody ::- ). One thing which has me perpetually angry at the ALT+TAB application selection window in Windows 7, is that after a time (about 1 second) it hides the window I triggered it from, replacing it with the window of the currently selected application. So let's say I'm typing...

Is there any software out there that allows me (and my colleagues) to assign tasks to each other and also allows our managers to keep track of our progress. Outlook can happily assign tasks and keep track but there's no way of the managers seeing what tasks we all currently have assigned and...

I read, all over the web, comments regarding the dislike for the forthcoming Windows 8, and in particular, and in fact almost exclusively, criticism of the (as it was called) Metro. I was urged to print my own thoughts on the subject, and I published an article which I have repeated here, in...

Here is a quick, easy way to have ALL APPS in a Desktop window; no flipping screens from Desktop. List s ALL APPS, even if not being displayed on Start. Result is a Desktop icon, tagged explorer.exe I changed the name to APPs (As you like) Rt Clk > Properties > Change Icon (I pick image...

My VB6.0 application process does not Exit under Windows 7 but it exits properly on Win XP. After exiting the application process VB6 Exe remains running in Task Manager. So every time I need to manually end that process. Any way to release all resources held by VB6.0 Exe & VC++ Dlls on Win 7...

I am seeing a utility that will let me enter the command that I use in XP and then tell me what the corresponding comand or sequence of comands are in Windows 7. What I am finding is I am spending many hours locating the correct set of sequences to do something which is very straightforward in...

Hello. I have a question. I have a Shared Folder on my Network. And, it has 2 subfolders. 1 is for reading things only. Which works as I want! However, the other folder, which is supposed to allow users to drop things in it, won't allow the dropping of files in. I don't understand! What am I...

I have been playing with some of the apps, while they are still working, and noticed some things that may or may not been discussed. OK, you can open an app and it will go full screen. So it is obviously open. You can go to the desktop, or another app and the previous app will remain open...

Task Image is Corrupt or Has Been Tampered With. It Happens wilth all these tasks. Task Proxy: Task Scheduled Defrag: Task Microsoft-Windows-DiskDiagnosticResolver: Task Microsoft-Windows-DiskDiagnosticDataCollector Task WinSat: Task UpdateRecordPath: Task SqlLiteRecoveryTask...

Hello, I have two questions: 1. Which DLL uses W7/64 for the sound at start-up of Windows? I would like to edit it for my own sound. 2. How can I alter the sequence of the entries in the Start-menu? Now the sequence is in sequence of creation, I would like to group them by applicationarea. Who...

Hi everyone! Well it's bothered me for a long time that when I want to load a file into some program for an ongoing project I have to navigate through, Desktop\Computer\Drive D:\Parent Folder\job folder\category folder and finely to the file I want, even though I've been using the same folder...

Link Removed May 1st, 2012: 25% off. Use coupon code: WINDOWS7FORUMS Optimize every aspect of Windows 7 with the System Advisor or manually. Repair corrupt registry entries and defragment the registry. Disable and enable services based on how you are using your computer. Adjust and edit...

Consider the following scenario: You have enabled "Allow wake timers" setting on current power policy in Power Options item in Control Panel. You set a Scheduled Task to wake the computer 1 month and 10 minutes later: For example, If the current time is... Link Removed

A large real-time service (KGW) with several user windows (one graphical under Java) is not compatible with session 0 screen output being removed (Session 0 Isolation) in Win7 (and Vista). Under XP the first user to logon would be assigned to session 0, and would inherit KGW’s status windows...