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Task Scheduler Revealed
You may notice a little-white-box-with-a-calendar-and-red-clock symbol on your Taskbar. This icon belongs to the Task Scheduler. This utility will run the programs you want, whenever you want. For example, you might ask it to run the Disk Defragmenter on the last Friday of every month.

To open the Task Scheduler and view the programs it's currently scheduled to run, double-click the icon or right-mouse-click it and select Open. The resulting dialog box displays a list of all scheduled tasks.

If you don't see the Task Scheduler icon in the tray of your Taskbar, that means this utility is not currently active. You can open the Scheduled Tasks window by selecting Start, Programs, Accessories, System Tools, Scheduled Tasks. To activate this utility so that it runs whenever you start Windows 98 (and displays an icon on your Taskbar), select Advanced, Start Using Scheduled Tasks.

In our next few tips, we'll show you how to use the Task Scheduler.