task scheduler

I guess no one has ever solved the multiple Software Protection Licensing checks every time you open up Word, Excel, etc... Any news?. Any new thoughts? Every time I open up an Office application I will receive the below in Event Viewer. I have fiddled with various registry entries, changing...

Hello I have 3rd party monitoring App tool that has it's own particular sservice running within Services panel and needs to continue to run. For some strange reason it sometimes gets stopped (maybe bug). I recently successfully configured Task Schedule in regards for Event ID = 7036 & Source =...

Hello all! I have a Windows Server 2016 box where i would like iTunes to start automatically when the computer boots up. I was able to successfully set the task up in task scheduler, but it started hidden, despite the hidden check box not being checked. I do occasionally use this computer to...

Hello, I have a batch script and i would like to put random delay / wait time in minutes to run second command. example : run first command here random wait between 5 to 30 minutes run second command here Thank You

I would like to, in Win 10, set a time and date for Defrag/Optimize Looking for advice on accomplishing this Thanks in advamce

Can we set the Task Scheduler so that it prompts before any task is scheduled? How?

Hi! I found old laptop and installed there Windows 7 SP1 Pro x86. Laptop has discharged CMOS battery and it is placed deep on motherboard as is near not accessible. I think why designers left easier access to CPU instead CMOS battery? I have no choice than at power-on only confirm load defaults...

How to set a programme repeat everyday for a duration of x minutes in Windows task scheduler

Hi, First of all, I'm sorry if this isn't the right place to post this kind of question. If you know where I can post this please let me know. Onto the question. I'd like to start a program (Rainmeter) when I plug in my laptop to charge, I would also like to kill it when I plug it out, i.e...

Assume I setup a task in Task Scheduler. It appears in Task Scheduler as active task with the status "Ready". Now I want to edit this task e.g. the name of the task. How can I achive this? If I mark e.g. the task in task list or double click on it then I still can not edit the entry...

Hello! i have a big problem waiting for quick solution, but spendig hours over it did not produce any solution. I needed to disable Windows Update, so I opened Task Scheduler and deleted the triggers of all tasks in UpdateOrchester directory under Windows. It would be enough to disable update...

Hey, so i recently started using the task scheduler to have my pc shutdown a few hours after i leave it, but its becoming a bit cumbersome to manually delete the tasks everytime they stack up, as well as making new ones everytime. So im asking for advice, is there a way to make an ongoing task...

Hi, Id like to know if there is a way I can customise my pc, either windows 7 or 10, to boot up automatically at the same time every morning. Without me touching anything... while I'm still in bed. I am currently venturing into the world of retail trading and need to be up and at my desk by...

I have adopted a fairly old IT philosophy of 'If its not broken, don't fix it' when it comes to Windows 10. After all, the only 'valuable' stuff on your computer are documents and emails which you spent time on - if these are 'lost' there is a cost to recover this data. So - for the past...

Our domain is at the Windows Server 2008 R2 Forest level. Our servers are running Windows Server 2008 R2 Enterprise and Windows 2012 R2 Standard Our workstations are running a mix of operating systems including Windows 7, Windows 8.1, and Windows 10. I have created a scheduled task in Group...

Im currently running windows 10 home version. Ive been woken up god knows how many nights in a row now due to my computer waking itself from sleep mode for no apparent reason. After surfing through many websites looking for how to find the problem/solution, I discovered that the cause is the...

I want to do the following - first deploy new version of software to multiple PCs, and then restart all PCs for changes to take effect. First part is not a problem, for second part is it possible to check if there is restart.bat in Dropbox folder every x minutes, and if there is, execute it...

hello everyone, I'm new to this forum - hope we will have a nice time I'm trying for weeks now to schedule a task to run a jar file every day at 3:20 pm. the trick is - I want it to work when my laptop is in "sleep" (not "sleep mode"). The best I got was that the jar was succesfully activated...

Hi, I'm trying to make a scheduled task to run every 5 minutes but I don't seem to get it to run. If I right click it and make it run manually it works so the path to the file is correct and working, also the .bat file works when I double click it. Under the history tab I can't see any errors...

Especially when I right click a file. I get the rotating circle and sometimes timeout before the context menu opens. Sometimes I think there is something going on in background, but task manager doesn't show anything. Is there a utility that can showerverything running? I've been toold tm...