This is the second part in my series on getting more out of Windows Task Scheduler.

Last time, we talked about setting up a Windows version of the *nix built-in script Periodic. Today we’re going to discuss setting up scheduled tasks in a manner that doesn’t make everything seem convoluted and obscured. When getting into scheduling things to run periodically, it’s easy to get lost in the details, scheduling each job individually. That can tend to make the job lose some of its identity.

In essence, let’s say you want to run a backup weekly, and incremental backup daily …

Ever wished you could turn your computer into a machine that does all of your mind-numbingly boring tasks for you? Here are some tips on doing that.

This will be a multi-part article on some things I have done to tame my Windows scheduler. I am not addressing Mac or *nix scheduling here, because those are much more robust systems for such things. The Windows Task Scheduler is pretty robust itself, but it can use some help.

First of all, I wanted to get into an idea that’s common on *nix platforms, as well as on Macs. They …