How to Automate Windows Maintenance Using Task Scheduler

This practical guide explains how to automate Windows maintenance using task scheduler. Follow the steps in order, review the requirements first, and use the troubleshooting notes when a setting or option does not work as expected.

How to set up Windows maintenance automation using Task Scheduler

Step 1:

You type Task Scheduler in the search bar and access as usual. Below is the interface of Task Scheduler, you click Create Basic Task to create a basic task.

Step 2:

A new interface appears where you enter a name for the computer maintenance task , such as automatic disk cleanup with the name Daily Disk Cleanup and click Next to continue.

Then go to the next interface and choose the time this task will be performed automatically .

Step 3:

We need to select a specific time to perform this automatic disk cleanup task.

In the Action section, select Start a program to start as soon as the computer starts.

Continue to press the Browse button and select the cleanmgr tool on your computer to automatically clean up the drive on your computer.

Step 4:

Finally, click the Finish button to complete the automatic disk cleanup task.

We can change other software we want to do the automatic task.