task scheduler

at my company we have a problem where we are struggling to get people to turn off their desktops when they leave to go home. we found a neat trick to use task scheduler to switch off the PC's at night if they weren't being used, but our problem now is monitors. is there anyway to send a...

Did you know that the Adobe AAM Updater is scheduled to run every day at 02:00? AAM Updater plants itself in your Task Scheduler and your Startup to maintain this routine. Yet Adobe probably releases an update only every couple of months. If you try to delete those entries, the next time you...

I have a program that run at startup. It need administrator privileges / elevation. Running the program on admin account, no problem. Running the program on limited/guest account, I have to fill the password. From admin account, how do I allow my program can run without password prompt? The...

Hello, I created a scheduled Task a while back that was supposed to start up Mozilla Thunderbird at 12pm, however I must have entered it as 12am because Thunderbird starts up every night and 12am without fail. I wish to go to the task and change it to 12pm, however I can never find in the task...

Hi everyone, This is my first post here so I'm hoping that I'll do everything right! I've checked the forum (and google...) and this question doesn't seem to have been asked/answered. If it has, sorry for this. So, basically, I would like to have my language bar showing 2 languages FR/EN US...

I would like to send an email from within Windows 7 Task Scheduler. I'm using Yahoo Mail Plus. It doesn't work. I suspect that I must setup a SMTP server first, but not sure how to do that. Is there a tutorial somewhere? Thanks Pete

Link Removed and weird things are happening, like as above. The bottom right shows me as not online, and a utorrent icon hiding away behind. And in the main screen, it shows all my boxes etc have reverted to what looks like windows 98 style. Also I can't defrag because task scheduler isn't...

If the System is not able to create System restore point try to Create the restore point manually. If you are unable to create a system restore point manually then you could try these steps 1. Make sure that System Restore is enabled 2. Make sure that you have sufficient disk space on all...

I have the scheduled tasks set to create a restore point on a daily basis. When I go into the Scheduler to view the task, it says that it has run successfully. However, when I look at the list of restore points, there is no restore point created. If I create a restore point manually, then it...

By Terry Blount This is a round up of processes, services and features that I have turned off. I have tested these for months under Windows 7. My system is faster and stable and has far less overhead than the day I installed Windows 7. My boot time as recorded by BootRacer is down to 17...

I know how to schedule a task in windows 7, but how do I go abotu viewign a list of scheduled tasks on my windows 7 system?

Hi, A few hours ago I created two one time run scheduled tasks using task scheduler. My problem is I can not view them. How can I find them? I urgently need to cancel them. Regards telmessos

So I've recently noticed a problem with my Windows 7 x64 PC where whenever I rebooted, when it came back to the welcome screen it was staying there saying "Please wait," for a few minutes (not sure what it was doing, but it was doing it in safe mode too...) So I wanted to check my eventlog to...

I've unchecked "Allow this device to wake the computer" for the Ethernet device. My bluetooth mouse and keyboard have both been checked to "Allow this device to wake the computer" which is right, yes? I do want to be able to wake my computer via mouse or keyboard. I'm running Avira Antivir...

I have been trying to create a shortcut that will work with all users when placed in the all users program startup folder to start a program (REAL TEMP) whenever a user is logged in. I created a scheduled task as Administrator following the directions here: Link Removed Then I created a...

Ounce of prevention... The old saying that an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure is a huge understatement when it comes to dealing with virus threats. Virus detection programs do just THAT... they DETECT viruses that have already infected your system. Some AV programs run all the time...

I'm stumped... I want to turn off the task scheduler... so far I've tried these methods without success: 1. Run Task Scheduler and look for the OFF option under options... nothing there but a disk cleaning uption. It used to be there in previous versions of windows 2. Task Manager and went...

The game is over - Microsoft won. Windows 7 may have reached the top of the food chain because the "packman power pellets" created by companies that wrote software to run on Windows have all been gobbled up. Windows Security Essentials ate the last big one when it ate the AV power pellet...

I have a couple of programs (Logitech Setpoint is one) which need to run as administrator in order to work in some apps (e.g. Visual Studio 2005). They are set to run at start-up, however since I've set them to run as administrator, they don't run (at start up - I have to start them manually)...

I love a fast clean system that will focus all it's attention to the tasks I give it to perform. So I turn off or optimize all features that I don't need to run all the time. Here are the tweaks I start with. User Account Control When you are tweaking features you will be prompted to...