Friday, March 9, 2012

Tech Recipe Guide 101: Windows 7 Task Scheduler

By Rebecca Metz


Is keeping pace with such a demanding schedule giving you a pain in your back? Microsoft has developed a computer application that will help you manage your tasks. Use time more effectively using the modern Windows 7 Task Scheduler.

Even though they sound the same, Windows 7 Task Scheduler is really different from the Windows Task Manager. It was in the Windows 95 Plus! pack that it primarily introduced as System Agent but when Windows 98 emerged, its name has been changed to Task Scheduler.

The Windows 7 Task Scheduler would allow you to automatically perform routine work on a specific computer. Among the things you can execute with this tool are to launch a particular program, send an e-mail or shut down a computer on a pre-defined schedule.

In order for you to take advantage of this tool, make sure to make the terms 'triggers' and 'actions' to yourself. What a trigger does is to turn a pre-assigned job begin. When the criteria set by the trigger has been met, the scheduled task will afterwards be executed. The work actually finished whenever a particular task is being accomplished is what we refer to as 'action'.

The two forms of trigger that can start a particular function are event-based and time-based. When a specific system occurrence is the one to begin a task, we call this as an even-based trigger.

As for instance, a work to send an e-mail at the time the computer starts up, this will be executed immediately when the user logs on. Triggers that are time-based would comprise of programmed work on a daily, weekly or monthly basis.

To navigate to the Windows 7 Task Scheduler, tap the startup button with the pointer, click the control Panel, find System and Security and hit Administrative Tools. When you have reached there, you can then get into the Task Scheduler.

All other previous editions of Microsoft's operating system even have task scheduling tools, however the most modern Windows 7 Task Scheduler is unquestionably a polished version. Unlike with Windows XP, it could still execute tasks even though a user has already logged out and once the password has been changed, the tasks are consequentially updated as well.




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