Would you like to learn how to create a scheduled task using Powershell? In this tutorial, we are going to show you how to use Powershell to create a scheduled task on a computer running Windows.

• Windows 2012 R2
• Windows 2016
• Windows 2019
• Windows 10
• Windows 7

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Tutorial Powershell - Create a scheduled task

As an Administrator, start a new POWERSHELL command-line prompt.

Windows 10 - powershell elevated

Create a variable containing an action.

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Create a variable containing the trigger.

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Create a scheduled task.

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In our example, we create a scheduled task named TEST using Powershell.

In our example, the scheduled task will run every day at 9 AM.

List all scheduled tasks created by a specific user.

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Here is the command output.

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Change the scheduled task configuration.

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Delete a scheduled task.

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Congratulations! You are able to create a scheduled task using Powershell.