Windows Help & Advice – May 2019

3 Create a task
With the new folder selected, either right-click it and choose
Create Basic Task, or use Action > Create Basic Task. This opens a
wizard that streamlines the process of creating an automated
task, but lacks some of the fine control of the Create Task process.
When the wizard opens, give your task a name and a description

• if you’re creating a lot of tasks, be as verbose as you can here.

4 Choose a trigger

Triggers tell the Scheduler when to activate tasks. They can

be a time, an event, or a more specific event from a complex list.

We want ours to trigger weekly, so choose that, followed by a

start date, a recurrence interval (one week), a day (Friday) and a

time (17:01). If you’re deploying a task to a lot of PCs, you can

sync them across time zones, so globetrotters don’t miss out.

Jargonbuster!

Trigger

The time or event

which sets a task

inmotion.

Task

An action, usually

running a program,

that’s triggered

automatically.

Deprecated

A software term

for something

that’s come to the

end of its life.

RIGHT-CLICK MENU

The fastest way to

get around the app.

ACTIONS

A useful panel with

all the controls you’ll

need on it.

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