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Schedule Tasks
Schedule tasks to run automatically. No more forgetting.
A feature again seen throughout windows 9x and 2000 is a program for scheduling tasks to run automatically, surprisingly labelled ‘Scheduled Tasks’.
In this tutorial I will show you how to use the scheduling program to schedule the Disk Defragmenter, just one of the possible programs which can be scheduled.
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START:
You may need to have administrative privileges to carry out these steps.
• Click Start, then All Programs.
• Expand Accessories, then System Tools.
• Now click ‘Scheduled Tasks’.
• The task scheduler will now launch.
• When it does you should see a windows explorer style window, to create a new task right click on any white space in the window hover over new then select ‘Scheduled task’.
• If you haven’t already got any scheduled tasks double click ‘Add Scheduled task’. A new window will now open, click ‘Next’.
• Now run down the list and select the program you wish to schedule to run automatically. In this example I am going to schedule the Disk Defragmenter.
• The Disk Defragmenter is not in the list so I can browse for the program which is in the ‘System 32’ directory of ‘Windows’ on my local hard disk or because I know the path I can type ‘%SystemRoot%system32dfrg.msc’ (without the quotes) in the file name field.
• Then click Open when the program is selected.
• Now type what you want the program to appear as in the schedule list, and then select how often you want the program or task to run.
• Click next; now select what months, days and what time you want the task to run and then click next.
• Now select the user you want to run the task and enter your password. This should be an admins details if you need administrative powers to run the program.
• Now click next, then finish.
You have successfully scheduled a task to run automatically and should now see it in the scheduled tasks list.
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