Tech Recipe Guide 101: Windows 7 Task Scheduler

By Rebecca Metz

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

There is a clear distinction between the Windows 7 Task Scheduler and Windows Task Manager despite how alike they sound. The new Task Scheduler was originally a System agent in the Windows 95 Plus! pack but later on, it was renamed to Task Scheduler in Windows 98.

Carry out continual tasks in your computer inevitably using Windows 7 Task Scheduler. Easily send an e-mail, open a computer program or switch off a computer at your desired time with this tool.

There are in fact two terms that need to be understood so as for one to acquire thorough benefit of this application: 'triggers' and 'actions'. What sets off a particular task is a 'trigger'. The execution of a unique work will only follow once the trigger's standards have already been met. On the other hand, action is the term used to name a specific work that has been rendered.

There are fundamentally two kinds of trigger which can establish a task specifically event-based and time-based. Event-based trigger will set off a task with a certain system occurrence.

Perhaps a customer has scheduled a program to be launched at the time the computer starts up, this program will consequentially be started right after the user logs on. Time-based triggers include the scheduled task as daily, weekly and monthly.

To get into the Windows 7 Task Scheduler, simply click the startup button, open the Control Panel, head to System and Security and navigate to the Administrative Tools. At the time you get there, click on the Task Scheduler.

All other earlier versions of Microsoft's operating system also have task scheduling tools, but the newest Windows 7 Task Scheduler is certainly a polished version. Unlike with Windows XP, it will still execute tasks regardless that a user has already logged out and once the password has been changed, the tasks are consequentially updated too.

About the Author:

Rebecca Metz is an excellent instructor, esteemed business coach and heart-centered entrepreneur. She is also the author of The Tech Recipe Guide , the helpful and non-techie way answer to all your technology-related questions to help you save both time and money with your business.