Chapter 19. Creating Scripts and Automating Tasks
Windows XP provides several automation features that help you perform tasks quickly, easily, and best of all, with little effort. The Task Scheduler is a great example of a tool that tells the system to perform a task for you automatically. All you need to do is perform a little task configuration, and the system will get it done.
However, what happens if you can’t package the task neatly into something that Task Scheduler will understand? For that matter, what happens if the task isn’t one that you perform on a regular basis? That’s where scripting can come in handy. It allows you to execute tasks when you need to perform them.
Scripting is more flexible than using Windows automation. It allows ...
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