Computer FAQs & Tips

When you need to do same work periodically, sometime you do not need to repeat it manually at all times. Instead you can schedule your computer to do it for you (eg. every hour/day/week etc). In Microsoft Windows operating system, there is a scheduler which you can use to schedule computer task to run automatically.

Get ready

• You need to know Administrator login to the PC (you don’t need to login as Admin)
• Define the job you want to run periodically. For example, you want to run a batch script call CleanTempfile every week.
• Define necessary association. For example the location of where your Tempfile directory is.
• Define period you want the job to run.

Schedule job

1. Click Start > Control Panel
2. Double Click Scheduled Tasks
3. Double Click Add Scheduled Task
4. Scheduled Task Wizard appears, click Next
5. If the program you want to run is not on the list, click Browse and navigate to your program file then click Open
6. Click Next
7. Select the Period from the options under Perform this task
8. Click Next and complete the next screen depending on which option you chose
9. Enter Administrator username
10. Enter Administrator password twice (sometime it could be blank if you didn’t set one)
11. Click Next
12. Click Finish
13. Confirmation message display, Click OK
14. Now you should see a new task listed in Scheduled Tasks window