How to automate tasks in Windows 10

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Updated onOctober 4, 2023

updated onOctober 4, 2023

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There’s probably an app or a website that you use/visit every day on your computer. If you’ve already developed such a routine, you can even save some time by having that app or website opened automatically for you, so you don’t have to search for them every single time.

Well,Windows 10has a handy tool that will make it possible. The tools is called Task Scheduler, and you can use it to automate basically any task you want. While this tool can’t perform more complex tasks, like leveling up a character in your favorite online game, it can do some basic, but still useful, actions, like opening an app, a website, or sending an email.

While such a simple action like opening a website might not be a deal breaker to you to start using this feature, you can use it for something else, like defragmentatingyour computer while its on idle. This feature has been present on Windows since way back, and luckily, Windows 10 still has it. So, let’s finally see how to automate a task in Windows 10, and save yourself some time and effort.

How to run Task Scheduler in Windows 10

As we said, you can use Task Scheduler to perform various types of tasks. In this article, we’re going to show you the most basic action you can do with this tool.

With Task Scheduler, you can basically run anything that’s installed on your computer. To just give you an idea of how this feature works, we’re going to perform a simple task of automatically opening our site. Here’s what you need to do:

There you go, this is how you can open any program or a website automatically with Task Scheduler. Of course, this is just the most basic action you can perform with this tool, because it supports many complex, and more useful operations. We just wanted to give you an idea of how this tool works in Windows 10, and if you want us to dig deeper into this feature, just let us know in the comments.

For example, if you want to set up an automatic defragmentation of your disks with Task Scheduler, like we mentioned above, just check outthis articlefor more info.

How to automate tasks in Windows 10#

How to run Task Scheduler in Windows 10#

How to automate tasks in Windows 10

How to run Task Scheduler in Windows 10