task scheduler

Severity Rating: Important Revision Note: V1.0 (April 14, 2015): Bulletin published. Summary: This security update resolves a vulnerability in Microsoft Windows. An attacker who successfully exploited the vulnerability could leverage a known invalid task to cause Task Scheduler to run a...

Severity Rating: Important Revision Note: V1.0 (March 10, 2015): Bulletin published. Summary: This security update resolves a privately reported vulnerability in Microsoft Windows. The vulnerability could allow Security Feature Bypass if a user runs a specially crafted application that is...

As you know users can setup a task to be run at startup with the built-in task scheduler "schtasks" with schtasks /sc ONSTART ... /TR ... However this command syntax triggers the task at EVERY BOOT time. How do I setup (from command line and not through GUI!!!) a ONE-TIME task? For simplicity...

Could anyone recommend a good quality FTP scheduler tool? I've been using FTP Voyager v.15, which has an excellent scheduler, but I recently started using Windows 8 and v.15 of FTP Voyager doesn't work so well. Version 16 of FTP Voyager is free and probably does work, but they made big changes...

I'm not familiar with task scheduler. I was going to create a task to backup my Stickies notes to my Dropbox but when I opened Task Scheduler these two errors popped up. I clicked OK on the first one then the second one appeared. Can someone shed some light on what's causing this and hopefully...

I'd like to run a program only on certain days of the week, and only on shutdown on those days. If this is possible, how can ZI do this? Thanks!

Hello, I try to send mail as a 'send email' task of Task Scheduler. The task fails and gives the error 202. What is wrong?

After only 35 yrs in the general purpose OS business, MS cannot devise a reliable "wake from sleep" scheduler. The task scheduler can shut down, or sleep, but not awake with any hope of reliability. The BIOS can set a base "power management" start-up, but it is insensitive to refinements in...

I want my Win7-Pro box to auto start (BIOS Power mgmt Time Set) and launch automated scheduled application. I had to disable UAC so it can start and run like my old XP. This works with one account and no password. I wanted full admin permissions so I created 2nd acct, super-admin with...

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I want to use the Task Scheduler to open an Excel file. The Excel file contains a macro that automatically runs when the file is opened. At the end of the routine the macro saves the file and closes the Excel application using the following commands: >ThisWorkbook.Save >Application.Quit When...

Hello, can you help please, my reliability monitor is not working, it runs as per the schedule but does not produce any data, my problems started recently following a small corruption with the library docs, this corruption caused the R/monitor to run continuously, I rectified this error with a...

When TI is running a backup operation, my system becomes somewhat unresponsive, especially the mouse/cursor operation. I suppose that wouldn't be so bad, if it were scheduled to only run when I was not using the computer, but with my erratic schedule, that isn't possible. I think that I...

You can create an alarm clock with Windows Media Player in scheduled tasks. Here is the video tutorial and the corresponding thread: http://windows7forums.com/tweaks-guides-howtos/18402-windows-media-player-alarm-clock-using-task-scheduler.html

Within the past month or so I've noticed that my Win7 SP1 desktop has stopped returning to sleep after the task scheduler runs any one of the 3 scheduled tasks for which "wake the computer..." is set as a condition. I put the system to sleep each night with "defrag", "restore" and "backup" set...

I had found that, to not have my programs visible in the TaskBar (ie: DSNTODAY), I must, in the General Tab, select 'run whether user is logged on or not'. Unfortunately, tho logically, this also seems to apply to sound (ie: the Win32API BEEP and MESSAGEBEEP). When I select 'run only when...

Hello, this post just to share experience about a solved problem:upset:. I had to perform a clean install of Windows8 on an OEM ultrabook delivered with Window7 Pro preinstalled since I have been unable to boot the delivered Windows 8 Pri DVD Pack after converting the MBR delivered SDD to GPT...

Hi In all editions of Windows 8, how do I make sure that it executes a DOS command each time a user logs off? Thanks Bye

I used to work with the Windows Task Scheduler every day, a few years ago; haven’t touched it in a while. So, today, I entered the appropriate info for General, Triggers, Actions, Conditions, Settings, and History. I am trying to open an XLSB file, which contains workbook open code in...