Google Android 2.x has a built-in utility for viewing system processes and running apps, but it doesn’t necessarily show everything that’s running on your phone at any given moment. Task Identifier, ...

System administrators may frequently encounter a situation where you would like to start a task when an event appears. For example, when an event error is logged you ...

Some Windows users have reported that when running a game, an app, or a setup, they get an error message stating that another instance of the same task is running in ...

Windows Task Scheduler is a powerful tool, but it can often be fraught with annoyances. It's notorious for failing to run when it's supposed to, and that's compounded by the fact that it sometimes ...

Microsoft's Task Scheduler runs as a system service under Microsoft Windows. As its name suggests, the Task Scheduler automates launching an application at specific times and opening a designated file ...

Android apps can work in the background in sever ways, but sometimes too much choice can be a bad thing. Android has a range of APIs and components for scheduling background work, and the “correct” ...

Puppet, the company that makes automation software for managing systems and delivering software, has introduced Puppet Bolt, an open-source, agentless multiplatform tool for running commands, scripts, ...