Windows NT/2000/XP/Vista allows you to schedule programs so that provided that the computer is actually on at the time you can have it run particular programs so that the tasks that those programs perform are handled at the time that you want them to be processed. For resource intensive housekeeping tasks having them performed in the middle of the night when you are not using the computer may be ideal. In this article I discuss the way that you access the Windows Scheduler and how to set up the commands needed to schedule your programs to run at the desired time. Of course many of the programs that you have which involve tasks that require scheduling those programs themselves will include the necessary code to add the task to the schedule without your needing to follow the steps described here.

Scheduling Jobs

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