In addition to the graphical user interface for Task Scheduler in Control Panel, Windows provides two command-line tools for managing scheduled task : at . exe ( deprecated ) and schtasks . exe.
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Other areas of interest include major changes to Task Scheduler, as well as the addition of Subsystem for UNIX Applications, which provides a POSIX-compatible environment for applications as part of the operating system itself.
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I've tried using windows task scheduler for web crawlers I know of, namely HTTrack, but all it does it open the program and I can't find a way to make it actually start downloading automatically.
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:I've used Task Scheduler probably a dozen times and have never known that it had the ability to close a program & mdash; just launch a program . talk ) 23 : 36, 10 August 2009 ( UTC)
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To further improve access times, the Task Scheduler calls Windows Disk Defragmenter every three days . When the machine is idle, the lists of files and directories that were referenced during the boot process and application startups is processed.
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:: : It has been explained to you several times now by myself and other users that DOS is not a multitasking OS and why it is not ( no task scheduler ) yet you keep arguing about this.
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For example, the Windows Task Manager manages ( running ) " processes ", while Windows Task Scheduler schedules " programs " to execute in future, what is traditionally known as a job scheduler, and uses the . job extension.
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Furthermore, scans are no longer scheduled through the Windows Task Scheduler, but through the Symantec's proprietary one, which performs tasks while the computer is idle ( i . e ., when the user is away from the computer ).
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:: : One way to make an audio alarm might be to use Task Scheduler to start Media Player ( or your preferred player ) with an appropriate sound file . talk ) 23 : 48, 7 January 2015 ( UTC)
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Primary among these is that the normal task schedulers under Unix-like systems will normally block a client that is waiting on an I / O request, so in this way the actions of pausing and restarting applications waiting on messages was already built into the underlying system.
