Questions tagged [tasks]
Tasks are processes that are to be done. A task can be an item on a to-do list, a process that needs to be completed, a scheduled event to take place, or any number of things that need to be accomplished.
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How to kill child processes spawned by Windows task scheduler?
I have a python script that runs forever but I'd like to restart every day just in case it gets into a bad state, gets shut down, etc. I'm scheduling it daily with task scheduler, which is fine.
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Task and Time management (tracking) software for Windows
I have seen a few discussions about the subject here, but it is still not clear for me which program I should use for task management. My requirements are following:
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What is the longest time you can leave your computer doing a repetetive task without it taking damage?
For example, let's say we have a game where you run a bike around a tower by pressing down W. You can keep pressing W down for eternity the game will just loop. For every step, you gain 1 point.
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Pressing [x] hides my apps
I reseted my windows after a blue screen of death and now I have the following issue:
When I press close in any app (like steam, discord) instead of closing them, it minimizes them and just hides ...
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Windows Task Scheduler, run task if task isn't running?
How do I ensure a task is running all the time?
I use speedfan to control my fans and on occasion it crashes or it needs to be restarted. If I manually quit speedfan because it isn't working ...
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Mozilla Thunderbird + Lightning: a task with a shell command line
In Thunderbird Lightning, I created a repeating task to remind me to perform a back-up of files.
Is it possible to have a command line to run the software in the text of the task? (I use Toucan to do ...
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How can I automatically kill unresponsive apps and games with a batch file?
Sometimes a game becomes unresponsive and I have to go into Task Manager and kill it, then restart it. It can be very annoying and time-consuming. While I know how to use taskkill and start an app ...
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Make task in windows scheduler an important one
How can I switch normal tak to an important one? I want to prevent all minor tasks from waking up my computer, but I also created one custom task which I want to set as important so it can wake up ...
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How do I find a Service by task name in Windows?
E.g. I know the service uses 'myservice.exe'. How do I find what's the registered service name using this task, from MS-DOS prompt or Powershell?
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Outlook: Flagged emails getting overdue within a minute getting red
I always used to flag emails for the followup in outlook for later in the day. I try to finish all the task in task list before end of the before they get overdue and turn red.
From past 2-3 days, I ...
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Google Tasks is redirecting to a different link now?
I have this link bookmarked: https://mail.google.com/tasks/ig?pli=1
but now it redirects to:
https://gsuite.google.com/learning-center/products/apps/keep-track-of-tasks/#!/
Anyone know a work around ...
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Check total usage of physical memory and CPU for a program on Linux
I want to compare how much physical memory and CPU power google chrome and firefox use. So I tried to do this with htop which I usually use to keep track of my system resources and found out that I'm ...
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SCCM Task Sequence Conditional Registry setting check
I'm testing a conditional argument as part of my SCCM task sequence. I want to check to see if a REG_DWORD does not exist. I seem to be running into an issue where I cannot get the system to check for ...
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Windows Task Scheduler - Task ending
I'm trying to schedule a task in windows task scheduler, that will run on every user logon, as the user creating it. The task needs to run an .exe, and then stop. The thing is, it keeps running for as ...
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How do I check the elapsed non-responsive time of a task?
I want to check the elapsed time an active task has been non-responsive in Windows. Is there a function or program in windows that can display this to me?
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