Use Command Prompt or the Run dialog box to set a one-time shutdown timer in seconds. PowerShell shuts down your computer immediately, so save your work before using it. Use Task Scheduler to create ...

Brien Posey explains why PowerShell timers can cause Windows Forms dashboards to freeze or fail to update, and why keeping GUI scripts responsive requires a different approach to timed events.

I wrote a simple windows service that consists of basically two System.Timers.Timer objects: 1) The main timer fires once a day at midnight and runs a long-running WCF call, and logs the results. 2) ...