While using Windows 11/10 regularly, one can easily understand that the OS is a mixture of various background tasks and processes. To complete a huge number of background processes, Windows uses a ...

Windows Task Scheduler is an underappreciated powerhouse that can automate more processes than most people ever realize — no third-party nonsense required. It's a smart and oddly satisfying solution ...

Exploit developer SandboxEscaper has quietly dropped a new zero-day exploit for the Windows operating system just a week after Microsoft's monthly cycle of security updates. This exploit is the fifth ...

Hold on. Don’t just reboot your Windows 7 PC. I realize that rebooting is the go-to solution when a program won’t shut down, or the system starts dragging or acting wonky, but there is another way.

Recently Google announced two zero-days that impacted both the Chrome browser and Windows 7 operating system. Google released an update to Chrome to protect users from the issue, and Microsoft patched ...

Windows 10 is set to mark a sea change in the way Microsoft’s OS works, but even the modern-looking Windows 8.1 carries a bunch of legacy tools and apps that you may not know about. One of those is ...

Tom Fenton details step-by-step directions to configure Windows 10 to allow running Task Scheduler and how to set up an automated task to run a PowerShell script every four hours. Recently I had a ...

Earlier this week a security researcher released exploit code for a Windows zero-day affecting the Task Scheduler ALPC interface. Today, cyber-security firm Acros Security published a temporary fix ...

Saeed Wazir is a South Africa-based journalist with over 15 years of IT experience and a love for reading and writing. He joined Pocket-Lint after writing tech articles for Dot Esports and Screen Rant ...