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The ability to schedule tasks to run at various times on your Windows NT server can be very beneficial. In the past administrators either had to buy a third-party program or use AT and WinAT. The obvious disadvantage to buying a third party program was the cost. AT and WinAT were okay but they weren’t exactly versatile. When Microsoft released Internet Explorer 5 however, they introduced a tool called Task Scheduler. This is a powerful utility that allows you to schedule different tasks to run at different times and also under a different security context. To use it you simply need to make sure that you have IE 5 or higher loaded on your NT server. Then open your My Computer icon and look for a folder called Scheduled Tasks. The Add New Task option will start a wizard that will walk you through the whole process.