Set up timed reminders with Windows 7 Scheduled Tasks

The Windows 7 system has a "scheduled Tasks" feature that is rarely used by people. In fact, "scheduled task" is a very useful feature of the system, for example, this function can set up a timed reminder, so that when using the computer will not be too much input to miss important transactions. Below, the small part describes the specific use of this "Scheduled Tasks" feature.

Tools/Materials

• Windows 7 Scheduled Tasks

Method/Step

2. 1

   Click the Start menu, search for scheduled tasks in the bottom search box, and then click to open Task Scheduler.

4. 2

   In the Task Scheduler window, click Create Basic task to open the Create Basic Task Wizard.

6. Enter a name for the task and a description, and click Next.

8. Set the task start time to "daily" in the "Triggers" option and click "Next".

10. Set the start time to May 1, 2014 12:00, the interval to occur every 1 days, and then click Next.

12. In the Action option, select Show messages, and click Next.

14. Set the title and content of the message box in the Show Messages option.

16. In the summary option, tick the check box in front of the dialog box for this task's properties when you click Finish, and click Finish.

18. Pop up the Scheduled Task Properties window, click Switch to the Triggers tab, select the scheduled task you just made, and click the Edit button.

20. Pop up the "Edit trigger" window, tick "Repeat Interval", set the time to "1 hours", set the duration to "indefinitely", click the "OK" button.

22. Go back to the original Scheduled Task Properties window and click OK to exit.

24. Time to, sure enough pop-up window, tips small to rest and relax ... ^_^

Source reference: http://jingyan.baidu.com/article/acf728fd279fe5f8e510a333.html

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Let's add one more implementation today-----using the VBS script implementation.

First, we first create a VBS file FOOTSTEP program, save the file to a fixed place, good convenient to call back, the contents of the file is very simple, just a code:

MsgBox  "Let's have a little activity together" & vbNewLine & "3-5 minutes per event!" "64+4096," take abreak .

MsgBox Specific usage, you can view one of my other articles: Parameters and Usage of MsgBox in VBA

In the 6th step of the above steps, we select "Start the program", and then follow the prompts to choose a footstep file we created, other settings, you can refer to the above task schedule creation instructions

Set up timed reminders with Windows 7 Scheduled Tasks