XP SCheduled Tasks

[kwinsw]

Hello,

I’ve been asked to demo the uses of XP Scheduled Tasks. I can see the theory of how it works, but in practice I can’t see how it’s much use as all it can really do is open a program, which will then sit there until you manually start the right task.

Someone told me that some programs have a command line option that you can use to make them work with Scheduled Tasks. Can anyone recommend a program that can do this – or that works in any other useful way with Scheduled Tasks?

Any and all help much appreciated.

Thanks

kwinsw

 

[tototoo]

My programs always started up. You must be missing something. Try running Spybot Search & Destroy by just adding it as a new scheduled task.

 

[smah]

ntbackup is commonly run as a scheduled task.

 

[linney]

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