Tag Results For: task scheduler

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When Then: Schedule Tasks To Be Performed One After The Other

When Then is a portable application which monitors user-specified programs and processes to perform an action when they reach a certain state. It is a great tool for automating tasks so that a specific process can be immediately initiated, stopped, etc in response to actions performed by other processes and applications. For example, you can set [...] (more…)

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Schedule And Automate Ubuntu Tasks With Advanced Options

Back in April, we covered Easy Shutdown, an Ubuntu app for scheduling system shutdown. If you would rather prefer a more advanced application for scheduling system shutdown and automating tasks according to a set time frame, have a look at Complex Shutdown. It has quite detailed features for allowing the configuration of a timer which [...] (more…)

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Advanced Disk Defragmentation And Cleanup With MyDefragPowerGUI

MyDefragPowerGUI is a portable GUI based tool that provides additional options for easy defragmentation and disk cleanup of Windows based operating systems. Other than performing the normal tasks of manually or automatically defragmenting system partitions, it cleans additional directories such as the Prefetch folder, allows defragmenting all partitions simultaneously, provides detailed information about system partitions/hard [...] (more…)

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Schedule Display Brightness And Wi-Fi/Data/Bluetooth Toggling On Android

There aren’t a lot of applications on the Market that provide you with comprehensive aid in conserving the battery life of your Android device. JuiceDefender, which has been around for quite a while now, is probably the best application of said kind, with more features and customizability than any other similar app on the Market. [...] (more…)

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Automate System Tasks With Open Source PShutDown

PShutDown is a small open source tool that helps users schedule various computer related actions. For example, you may have to leave for office while you have a download running on your system, which might mean leaving the system on for the whole day. Which will obviously result in the consumption of unnecessary electricity and [...] (more…)

Microsoft Security Essentials Automatic Virus Signature Updates

In one of our posts earlier today we talked about MSE command line utility MpCMdRun.exe. We also discussed that running it via Scripts or the build-in Windows Task Scheduler can come useful. In this post we are going to show how you can check for Microsoft Security Essentials Signature Updates on daily, weekly, or monthly [...] (more…)

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Using Gnome Task Scheduler To Automate Tasks in Ubuntu Linux

You will certainly get irritated if you are to perform the same repeated task every day, all operating systems offer solution to this problem via Task Scheduler. Ubuntu Linux has a free and easy-to-use tool to automate tasks, called Gnome Task Scheduler. To install it, simply run following command in your terminal. sudo apt-get install [...] (more…)

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Sleep Moon Xpress – Automation Software And Task Scheduler For Windows XP/Vista/7

Sleep Moon Xpress is a free advanced automation tool for Windows that is filled with various easy-to-use features that you won’t find in any other task scheduler. Unlike other task schedulers where you have to define the time&date, this tool can perform a task based on network bandwidth too. Suppose you want to Shutdown the [...] (more…)

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Use Task Scheduler To Tweak Automatic Disk Defragmentation In Windows 7/Vista

With Windows 7 / Vista many standard applications such as Windows Firewall got a face lift, the Disk Defragmenter interface changed to a dialog box with an added task scheduler support to schedule defragmentation of your hard drive. Since now it works on scheduled time, it automatically starts defragmenting as soon as the scheduled time [...] (more…)