Scheduled Tasks overview

With Scheduled Tasks, you can schedule any script, program, or document to run at a time that is most convenient for you. Scheduled Tasks starts each time you start Windows XP and runs in the background.

With Scheduled Tasks, you can also:

• Schedule a task to run daily, weekly, monthly, or at certain times (such as system startup).
• Change the schedule for a task.
• Stop a scheduled task.
• Customize how a task will run at a scheduled time.