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 (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...

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...

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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...

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...

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...

I tried posting this in another section but got no respnses, so hopefully somewhere here can help with it. 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...

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...

Boot straight to the desktop Here's how: Using Windows 8's own built-in Task Scheduler to bypass the Metro Start screen is a delicious irony. First, open the Task Scheduler by typing Schedule tasks in the Settings search or type Schedule Tasks on Start. Once the Task Scheduler...