Many times, the items we need to schedule to run automatically, such as virus and malware scans, have a built in scheduler which allow you to create an event without having to use the task scheduler in your OS. This tip serves as just a simple reference to some resources which show you how to create a scheduled task in all the major OS’s for when you actually need to schedule a task yourself.

How to create a scheduled task in:

• Windows XP (this information is virtually the same in Windows 2000)
• Windows Vista
• Mac OS X Panther
• Linux (using crontab)

In addition, I found this comparison of scheduled task between Windows XP and OS X to be interesting.

Happy automating.