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Based in rural Minnesota, Brian Burgess worked in IT for 10 years before finding his passion for writing about consumer technology. Brian earned his degree in computer and network technology in 2000.

When using Windows 11/10 regularly, one can easily see that the OS is a mix of various background tasks and processes. To complete a huge number of background processes, Windows uses a Task Scheduler.

Task Scheduler, the built-in utility from Microsoft lets you schedule any task to initiate automatically. For example, you can create a task for your monthly bills and schedule it and it will ...