Scripting Solutions with WSH and COM: Scheduling Automated Tasks

Customizing an Existing Task
After you've created a task, you can access that task's properties by right-clicking it in the Task Scheduler GUI, then selecting Properties. The properties dialog box has three tabs—Task, Schedule, and Settings. The Task tab, which Figure 3 shows, provides summary information for the task in question. On the Schedule tab, which Figure 4, page 14, shows, notice the Show multiple schedules check box. Selecting this check box lets you set values for different schedules. For example, you could run the same task at 2:00 a.m., 4:30 a.m., and 10:30 p.m. every weekday, then at 9:30 a.m. on Saturdays and Sundays. The Settings tab, which Figure 5, page 14, shows, has the bulk of useful task settings, such as whether to run the task while something else is running (i.e., the machine isn't idle), whether to run the task on a laptop that's running on battery power, how long to let the task run before forcibly terminating it, and whether to delete the task after it has run. . . .