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Windows XP comes with a "Task Scheduler" that can help us run a program or perform certain operations within a specified time, which greatly facilitates many friends who suffer from "amnesia". If the hidden functions and special settings in the "Task Scheduler" can be brought into play, its "effectiveness" will be multiplied.
Let old computers start automatically.
The BIOS of some old motherboards does not support the scheduled startup function. If you use the "Task Scheduler" and combine it with Windows power management, you can let old computers start automatically every morning and wake up the Windows XP system in hibernation. Click "Start" → "Accessories" → "System Tools" → "Task Scheduler" to open the Task Scheduler Wizard. Click "Next" and select an MP3 song in the computer. Click "Next" and choose to set the task to execute "every day" and the execution time to "7:00", then enter the current administrator account name and password. Finally, select "Open advanced properties for this task when you click Finish". After clicking "Finish", in the Task Scheduler Properties dialog box, select the "Settings" tab and select the "Wake up the computer to run this program" option. In this way, when you shut down the computer, if you select the "Hibernate" option, at 7 o'clock every morning, the old computer will automatically wake up the system and start the corresponding program to play the specified song to wake you up.
One "task" with multiple "plans"
In general, after a task plan is established, it can only be executed within the specified time. Have you ever thought about having a task to carry out multiple plans? The method is very simple. Open the "Task Plan" folder, right-click a scheduled task, select the "Properties" command in the right-click menu, and select the "Schedule" tab in the pop-up dialog box. Check the "Show Multiple Tasks" option, set the type and execution time of the scheduled task, and click the "New" button to add multiple execution plans for the task.
Task Plan and E-mail
If you have enough imagination, you can even send the compiled scheduled tasks to rookies through e-mail, so that they can perform some automatic operations and solve some simple problems by executing the scheduled tasks.
Write and add a task plan on the local computer, then open the task plan folder, select the task plan you just added, right-click on it and select the "Copy" command, and then "paste" it into other folders to get a task plan with the suffix ".job". Finally, open the Email sending window, add the copied task plan file to the attachment, and send it to the rookie via email. When it is received, just drag and drop the task plan file into the "Task Plan" folder.
Batch termination of task plans
Sometimes, you may need to temporarily stop all scheduled tasks in the current system, but it is too cumbersome to open the task plan folder and stop them one by one. At this time, you can execute the "netstopSchedule" command in the "Run" dialog box to stop the task plan service. When you want to restore all task plans, you can execute the command "netstartSchedule" in the "Run" dialog box to restart all scheduled tasks.
Quickly establish a task plan
When using the Task Plan Wizard to establish a task, you need to go through multiple steps. If you use the AT command of the WindowXP system, you can simplify this step. For example, if you want the computer to automatically play music half an hour before getting off work this afternoon, you can execute the "AT17:30E:\Music\Go Home.mp3" command in the "Run" dialog box to achieve it. Open the "Command Line Prompt" window and enter the "AT/?" command in it to get more information about the use of AT commands.
Keep hackers away from task plans
. Using AT commands is very convenient, but hackers generally use AT commands remotely to add Trojan task plans to achieve the purpose of intrusion. In this case, if you don't want to stop the task plan service and don't want to give hackers any chance, you need to limit AT's permission to add services to make it "the best of both worlds."
Open the "Task Plan" folder and click "Advanced" → "AT Service Account" command in the menu. In the pop-up window, select the "This Account" item and enter an uncommon account name and password. After confirming, when hackers use remote attacks to invade the system, they can no longer use the current system account to add Trojan task plans.
View the task plan log.
Want to know if hackers have moved your task plan? You can view the task plan log saved in the Windows XP system. Just use Notepad to open the "C:\windows\SchedLgU.Txt" file, and you can view the log information of all task plans in it. It clearly records when the task plan service was stopped or started, and what task plans the user has added to the system.