Scheduled Tasks should run any file you select, as long as it has an attachment to an application. I used to use it as an alarm clock and have the "scheduled task" be an mp3 that I picked to wake up to.
Yeah, I used to do that with batch files that opened a text file and played a WAV, till I found a pretty good freeware alarm program called KirbyAlarm. It was also great for pulling pranks on people. I used to schedule SBTalk (the text to speech program that came with old Sound Blaster cards) to read ominous scripts in the middle of the night on my friend Larry's computer (he ran a BBS so his system was up 24/7). Since Win 3.x didn't have a pre-loaded scheduler, I loaded a 3rd party scheduler that he didn't know about and was able to torment him for almost 2 weeks, till he figured it out.
Unfortunately fewer and fewer Windows apps support command line parameters, or at least they don't offer it in their unregistered versions. Luckily, a majority of my favorite apps still do! About 45 out of the 54 things in my scheduled task list are WinRAR, QuickPAR and TrueCrypt and commands. My life would a living hell without WinRAR.
Amen to that! SpyBot S&D not only rocks for it's cleaning abilities, but it's great for managing BHOs, Active X plugins and system startup (though I've since started to fall in love with Starter). I'm definitely a fan of Spybot S&D...
...Especially since Lavasoft made Ad-Aware 2007 so much more unwieldy (at least in my opinion). It's barely operable, and I have a modestly powerful system with lots of RAM to spare. Running my CPU at 99% for 35+ minutes on a "smart scan" is just absurd. It also keeps pulling up the same false positives over and over, no matter how many times I set it to exclude RAdmin, VNC and AzureusY'know, I think I'm gonna pull the plug on Ad-Aware 2007, and just put SE Personal back on. I'm so low-risk anyways, Spybot S&D is probably more than enough. In all the years of internet browsing on my work PC, I've never gotten anything more maleficent than a few tracking cookies
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Unfortunately fewer and fewer Windows apps support command line parameters, or at least they don't offer it in their unregistered versions. Luckily, a majority of my favorite apps still do! About 45 out of the 54 things in my scheduled task list are WinRAR, QuickPAR and TrueCrypt and commands. My life would a living hell without WinRAR.
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...Especially since Lavasoft made Ad-Aware 2007 so much more unwieldy (at least in my opinion). It's barely operable, and I have a modestly powerful system with lots of RAM to spare. Running my CPU at 99% for 35+ minutes on a "smart scan" is just absurd. It also keeps pulling up the same false positives over and over, no matter how many times I set it to exclude RAdmin, VNC and AzureusY'know, I think I'm gonna pull the plug on Ad-Aware 2007, and just put SE Personal back on. I'm so low-risk anyways, Spybot S&D is probably more than enough. In all the years of internet browsing on my work PC, I've never gotten anything more maleficent than a few tracking cookies ( ... )
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