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Hey, Scripting Guy! How Can I Best Work with Task Scheduler?

April 1, 2009 Apr 1, 2009 04/1/09
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(image) Hey, Scripting Guy! We are really looking at reducing our IT costs as a group and as a result are seeking out anything that is already built into the operating system that will allow us to automate things. Our company recently had some cutbacks and we simply do not have enough people to be able to do anything more than operate in ...

Hey, Scripting Guy! How Can I List and Delete Scheduled Jobs?

March 31, 2009 Mar 31, 2009 03/31/09
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(image) Hey, Scripting Guy! We had this guy a while back who went around and created all kinds of goofy scheduled tasks using the AT command. He did not document anything, and many of the scheduled jobs do not work anyway. And we are not sure what the ones that do work are supposed to do. Needless to say, that clueless individual is no ...

Hey, Scripting Guy! How Can I Create a Scheduled Task on a Number of Computers?

March 30, 2009 Mar 30, 2009 03/30/09
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(image) Hey, Scripting Guy! I have to be able to create a simple scheduled task via script on a number of computers. I do not need to do anything fancy, but it needs to be quick and easy to do. Do you have any ideas that can help me?- JW(image) (image) Hi JW, The word for the day is blue. We have a nice pot of green tea, and we crushed ...

Hey, Scripting Guy! How Can I Hide My Desktop Wallpaper?

February 5, 2009 Feb 5, 2009 02/5/09
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(image) I give a lot of presentations, and the background picture of my baby alpaca, while fascinating to me, probably does not have the same level of attraction to my clients. I know I can mouse around and change the desktop picture to some bland color, but I prefer to run a script and make the change because I can have the same script ...