September 07, 2007 by
Jason
The Microsoft Update site in Vista has been replaced by a Control Panel applet. To automate the reminder in Vista, you’ll need to set up two automated processes: one for patching Windows, and another for launching a browser showing the Secunia Software Inspector.
Follow these steps to run Windows Update once a month after Patch Tuesday:
Step 1: Choose Start, type Task Scheduler, and press Enter. Click to confirm User Account Control.
Step 2: In the far right pane, click Create Basic Task.
Step 3: In the Create Basic Task Wizard, type the name of your task and (optionally) a description. Click Next.
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September 07, 2007 by
Jason You can make Scheduled Tasks run a script that launches Internet Explorer 7 with Microsoft Update in one tab and Secunia Software Inspector in another. I use IE 7 in this example because Microsoft Update won’t run in most other browsers, such as Mozilla Firefox. The technique shown below is adapted from a Windows Scripting Host script published by Tony Schreiner in his MSDN blog.
Step 1. Open your favorite text editor, such as Notepad. Type or paste in the following five lines:
var navOpenInBackgroundTab = 0×1000;
var oIE = new ActiveXObject(”InternetExplorer.Application”);
oIE.Navigate2(”http://update.microsoft.com”);
oIE.Navigate2(”http://secunia.com/software_inspector/”, navOpenInBackgroundTab);
oIE.Visible = true;
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This tutorial will show you how to schedule your PC to reboot at a given time and date, using the utility provided. This tutorial will work with Windows Server 2003, Windows XP, Windows 2000, and Windows 98. For this tutorial I will be using windows XP.
First Schedule Windows to Automatically Restart Download. Save it to disk and extract shutdown.exe to your C:\ drive.
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When you connect to another computer with Windows XP, it checks for any Scheduled tasks on that computer - a fairly useless task, but one that can add up to 30 seconds of waiting on the other end - not good! Fortunately, it’s fairly easy to disable this process. Read More»
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As you know over time the Windows filing system can become disorganised and this will eventually lead to a slow down and a reduction in performance. Defragging the hard drive can restore order but most of us forget to do it regularly and leave it until the system has started to slow down. Here is a way to program Windows to automatically Defrag your drives once a month or every few weeks. Read More»
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January 30, 2007 by
Jason Here’s a great tip to speed up your browsing of Windows XP machines. Its actually a fix to a bug installed as default in Windows 2000 that scans shared files for Scheduled Tasks. And it turns out that you can experience a delay as long as 30 seconds when you try to view shared files across a network because Windows 2000 is using the extra time to search the remote computer for any Scheduled Tasks. Note that though the fix is originally intended for only those affected, Windows 2000 users will experience that the actual browsing speed of both the Internet & Windows Explorers improve significantly after applying it since it doesn’t search for Scheduled Tasks anymore. Here’s how : Read More»
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