There is a built in “orchestration” engine that can run your scrips on an event or time using task scheduler. Source: almost 2 years ago

In all probability it is one of the scheduled tasks listed in your Task Scheduler. Source: about 2 years ago

Specifically, the batch file that runs on a timer using task scheduler and runs a data scraping file. Source: over 2 years ago

One option would be to have the OS run the task at the given time of day. You would need to break the task out into its own binary or run it based on arguments to the program. Check these links for how to do it on windows/linux https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/taskschd/task-scheduler-start-page, https://linuxconfig.org/how-to-schedule-tasks-with-systemd-timers-in-linux. I'm sure that OSX has a... Source: almost 3 years ago

To Firefox's credit, they are the last major browser to inject themselves into our computer's startup (and at least they are providing notice and a way to disable it). I find it not only annoying but arrogant how most other software companies assume our lives revolve around their particular tool. So much so that, obviously, we must want their software to leech our time, bandwidth and power running its setup... - Source: Hacker News / 11 days ago

Also Autoruns from SysInternals ( https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/autoruns ) "Explorer" tab lets you un-check / check individual entries. - Source: Hacker News / 4 months ago

So perhaps it's time for autoruns: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/autoruns or a perf trace to rule out a hardware fault: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/test/wpt/windows-performance-analyzer. Source: 7 months ago

You can also disable it with Autorun. Source: 9 months ago

i've got cut/copy/paste on my context menu in 11... Check out autoruns [0] for easily cleaning context menu, startup junk, etc. [0] https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/autoruns. - Source: Hacker News / 11 months ago