Filed under: Utilities, Windows, Productivity, Microsoft, Shareware
Xecutor - Windows scheduling on steroids
by Jason Clarke May 7th 2007
While Windows has the ability to automatically schedule the execution of processes, it is quite limited with respect to handling more interesting process triggering criteria. For example, if you're looking for a way to run a specific process (defragmenting your hard drive, for example) before shutting down, Xecutor is the ticket.It can automatically intercept the Windows shutdown command, and trigger your commands allowing them to execute to completion before actually shutting down the computer. Further, you can schedule certain tasks to occur only on certain days of the week, for example have system maintenance tasks fire on the weekend.
Xecutor is free for home use, but the developer requests that if you are going to use it at home that you send him a postcard.
So, just how good at time waster games are you? Think you've got the stuff? Well, The World's Hardest Game 2.0 doesn't think you do.
Yes, amazingly, it's possible to have a sequel to a game called "The World's Hardest Game". It doesn't seem logically possible, since if the first one was actually the world's hardest, how could another one come along and share the moniker? It made me doubt the name in the first place. That is, until I tried the game.
The mechanics of the game are very simple. You are a small red square, ...
