Powerful and convenient Win7 plan tasks make PCs smarter

        As a super lazy person, the author has been pursuing things that can be done automatically by the computer, and I am determined not to bother myself to worry. In the XP era, the author has been used to "lazy" with the system's scheduled task function, allowing the computer to automatically execute pre-customized various planning tasks. After entering the Win7 era, the Win7 system's good user experience, perfect security mechanism, rich system features and beautiful theme desktop made the author deeply impressed, but the lazy person is particularly pleased that Win7's planned tasks are compared. XP system is more powerful and more convenient. Using this tool can make PC more intelligent and make all kinds of "lazy" more convenient.

"Task Scheduler" Launch

The method of launching "Task Scheduler" in Win7 generally uses the following two methods:

Windows interface click to start: Click Start button, All Programs, Accessories, System Tools, Task Scheduler. Or click the Start button, click Control Panel, click System and Maintenance, click Administrative Tools, and then double-click Task Scheduler.

Search Launch: Click the "Start" button, enter "Task Schedule" in the multi-function search box, find "Task Scheduler" in the search results, click Open.


New and management of mission planning

The wife of the author often watches the TV drama at night, forgetting the time, forgetting the husband, in order to protect the health of the wife, and to avoid manually forcing the wife computer every time. It is a good idea to solve the problem of husband and wife, and it is obviously better to solve the problem through the “task planning process”. Since setting the computer to automatically shut down at 11 o'clock every day, it is really "she is good for me." Below we will use the new "Daily Auto Shutdown Task" to demonstrate how to create and manage the task plan:

First, in the "Task Scheduler" interface, click "Operation - Create Basic Task" in the menu.

Then in the pop-up dialog box, enter the task name and task description to be created, click "Next".

In the "Trigger" option, select the execution frequency of the shutdown task, choose whether to execute daily, or weekly and single execution, etc. Here we choose weekly, after selecting, click " Next step, then you can see the detailed options for setting the trigger time. Here we can further customize the start date and time of the task execution, and set which days of the week to execute the task, etc. After setting, continue to "Next" .

In the "Operation" option, the Win7 system's scheduled task program allows us to select between launching the program, sending an email, and displaying a message. We select "Startup Program" and continue to click "Next". step".

In the startup program detailed settings, we fill in the "program or script" column with "shutdown", in the "parameters" column, fill in "-s -t 30", after the Win7 system starts the shutdown program, it provides a 30-second countdown, which can also be left here.

After continuing to click “Next”, we can see the details of the current setting task. After confirming the error, click the “Confirm” button to complete the setting of the mission plan.

After setting the task, we can see the “Timed Shutdown” task we just set in the Task Scheduler Settings panel. The details of the task are listed by type below. information. Right-click on "Tasks", you can select the pop-up menu items to perform various management operations on tasks, such as running, ending, disabling, exporting, attributes, deleting, etc., which is very convenient.

In addition, Win7's "Task Scheduler" also supports the import and export of task plans, managing or creating tasks on remote computers. The detailed mission planning setup wizard and the selection of task types, display task lists, etc., make the Win7 system's "task scheduler" more user-friendly, very user-friendly.