I'll say it out loud. Much as I love the functionality that Windows offers, I've never been the greatest fan of the operating system because of the sheer amount of maintenance it requires to keep ...

It's a little early in the morning for this, but Windows Task Scheduler (W2K Server, SP4) is driving me bonkers. We're trying to get a FileMaker database to start up every night so that it can run ...

Windows 10 is set to mark a sea change in the way Microsoft’s OS works, but even the modern-looking Windows 8.1 carries a bunch of legacy tools and apps that you may not know about. One of those is ...

Using the Windows 10’s built-in Task Scheduler, you can set up a process in which a computer will shut down automatically at a specific time. For many businesses, it’s standard operating procedure for ...

Malware developers have started to use the zero-day exploit for Task Scheduler component in Windows, two days after proof-of-concept code for the vulnerability appeared online. A security researcher ...

A Windows task scheduler API function does not check permissions – so any potential local bad actor can alter them to gain elevated privileges. A zero-day flaw recently disclosed in Microsoft’s ...

In Windows XP the Task Scheduler was easy to deal with. Anyone could look at it (Control Panel -> Scheduled Tasks) and easily understand which tasks were scheduled and when they ran. Windows 7 ...

Recently Google announced two zero-days that impacted both the Chrome browser and Windows 7 operating system. Google released an update to Chrome to protect users from the issue, and Microsoft patched ...