Increase Productivity and Reduce the Risk of Missed Tasks by Automating using Techscheduler 6.5

USA. (SANEPR.com) October 25, 2006 -- Dean Software Design has released Techscheduler 6.5, an advanced Windows automation application for business and IT tasks. By using the intuitive user interface you can automate most activities that administrators, managers and users would perform on a Windows based workstation or server. You can do software testing, perform system administration tasks, monitor websites, support data entry and data processing, update databases, and schedule other tasks. Techscheduler can serve as an automation platform to run, integrate, schedule, and manage other scripts such as VBScripts and JScripts.

- Schedule any Windows program or batch file to run automatically. This functionality is equivalent to the default Windows Task Scheduler but with more scheduling and reporting options.

- Schedule a WatchDog System Monitoring job – Monitor your system for specific process to be running, for a specific Window (by name) to be present, for available disk space, Maximum number of files in a folder, whether a specific file exists, an NT Service is running or whether your system is sitting idle for a given amount of time.

- Schedule Backup Jobs. Use this powerful job to create backups of files, folders and the registry. The job allows you to compress and encrypt the backup data and automatically place it in a local or remote target.

- Schedule System Jobs: Shutdown or reboot Windows, terminate processes, empty recycle bin, set system restore points.

- Schedule FileFolder Jobs: Copy, Move, Delete or Rename files and folders.

- Schedule Email Jobs: Send emails with dynamic attachments or dynamic message content to multiple recipients.

- Schedule Network Jobs: Connect & Disconnect from Network Resources, PING network resources to make sure they are available.

- Schedule FTP Jobs: Log into FTP servers and Send, Receive, Delete or Rename files and folders.

- Schedule HTTP Download Jobs: Schedule the download of files from HTTP sites.

- Schedule Keystroke Emulation Job: Record keystrokes into a “script” and then play them back automatically.

- Schedule "Glue-it!" Notes jobs – much like an electronic PostIt ™ note on your screen, this allows reminders and notes to be displayed on your desktop.

- Schedule RAS Dial-up Networking jobs. Allows you to connect and disconnect to remote systems and then map remote drives to your system.

- Schedule Windows Administration jobs. Perform an REXEC (remote execution) to a remote system. Perform an SU (substitute user). Start or Stop a Windows Service.

- Schedule Zip/Unzip jobs. Automically compress or decompress files or entire folders using standard “Zip” format or the common Windows “CAB” format.

- Schedule VB/Java Script jobs. Execute VB and Jscript script files and report on the results.

- Schedule Print Jobs. Print strings or files to a selected printer. This job can be used to print the results of other jobs to a system administration printer.

- Schedule Web Browser Jobs. Using Internet Explorer you can dynamically open and navigate to a specific web page and then refresh it automatically. You can schedule printing or saving of web pages.

- Schedule Console Jobs. This job will create a Windows console (command.com) and run a command line program and report on the results.

- Schedule Multimedia Jobs. You can schedule media files to be played (auto-replay) on the desktop automatically, including images and videos. This solution can be used for trade shows, kiosks and presentation rooms.

- Schedule Capture Jobs. Automically capture the Windows desktop to a bitmap file. The job will compress the bitmap and automatically email it.

As a standard feature for all the jobs listed above, you can set pre-start criteria to make sure certain events or criteria have been met before the job is allowed to run. All jobs will allow automatic emails to be sent with the results and finally every job can automatically chain to one or many other jobs when completed successfully or with a failure. Logging of all job results is integrated into the program.

Whether you're a business person who wants to automate business functions without hiring a programmer to do the work, or an IT manager who needs an automation tool that can be used to schedule recurring tasks, Techscheduler has the tools that you need.

Price and Licensing:

Standard license pricing begin at $19.99 (US) per copy and extended to $50.00 per copy for an advanced version with an NT Service. In addition to per-copy licensing, the company also offers volume and site licensing options.

System requirements:

Techscheduler 6.5 runs under Windows NT4, 2000, XP, or 2003. You can download a free trial version from http://www.winutils.com

Evaluation copies available for free download at the company web site.

About Dean Software Design:

In business since 1995, Dean Software Design offers professional Windows utilities to thousands of satisfied customers including a full range of users from Fortune 500 companies, small business users, government and military users, and educators. In addition to Techscheduler, the company also offers PC Surgeon – a Windows diagnostic, repair and reporting utility which has received excellent reviews.