Scheduled tasks is a utility in Windows XP that runs a specific program, script or any document etc. at any time that you specify. This is a good utility to schedule your important programs to run convinients that you tend to forget like Disk Defrag, Disk Clean ups, Backups etc.
Setting Up a Scheduled Task
Setting up a scheduled task is very simple is Windows XP. To do it first of all
Click on the Start Button and then to All Programs
Now move the mouse over to Accessories and then System Tools
Under the System Tools you can find Scheduled Task, Yes! Yes! click it.. Getting clever huh!
Now you can see the Scheduled Tasks window. Click on Add Scheduled Task
Yes read that on your wish and click Next
Now select a program that you want from the list. If the program is not on the list you can use the Browse button to locate it (In my case I selected backup from the list) and click on Next
Now give some name to your task and select a schedule when you want to it to be performed. Click Next
Now give the dates and time when you want it to run whether repeatedly or for once and click Next
Now for the final step, uncheck that checkbox and click on Finish
Yes that’s it. You have got your Scheduled Task ready now !
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Thanks for an excellent guide.Now I can use this to schedule the disk defrag and clean up all the mess which it creates and that too without any hassles.
If you schedule a Disk Cleanup…. It will NOT run automatically… Its needs a response from you first before it starts running…. How do you make these things run without having to answer a yes or no question first!!!
@Joe P
Well thats pretty simple, just add the /d switch followed by the drive letter to automate the process…
Hi, I know how to create a schedule task. (ControllPanel – Schedule Tasks – double click on Add Schedule Task – Select a Program – …..) My problem is how to configure/edit/Set a task. When you have set a task then you can go to properties to edit for example Time plan, … But how to write a job file and specify what this job should do. For example I have developed an windows application in C# .Net 2005. This app reads a file and then store data from this file into oracle database. One can run this app and click on a button to read transfer data from file to database, but additionally I also want to write a schedule task which should run once a week to transfer data. How can I do that ?.
Many thanks for help.
Hi Javed,
I am sorry I don’t know to code in dot net but considering your problem I think you should add a command line argument to you program and use the same for scheduling like for example
C:\Your Folder\youprogram.exe -scheduled
should grab the “scheduled” argument and do the process. I hope you understand ?