Task Scheduler

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Task Scheduler (formerly Scheduled Tasks) is a job scheduler in Microsoft Windows that launches computer programs or scripts at pre-defined times or after specified time intervals. Microsoft introduced this component in Microsoft Plus! for Windows 95 as System Agent. It score component is an eponymous Windows service. The Task Scheduler infrastructure is the basis for the PowerShell scheduled jobs feature introduced with PowerShell v3.

Task Scheduler can be compared to cron or anacron on Unix-like operating systems. This service is not to be confused wit the scheduler, which is a core component of the OS kernel that allocates CPU resources to processes already running.

External links

• Task Scheduler on Wikipedia