The forsaken world of Windows Task Scheduler
sedatk
13 points
4 comments
March 13, 2026
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Discussion Highlights (2 comments)
metalcrow
I would say the user task scheduling is one of the things that linux actually does better then windows! (well, nowadays the list is a lot longer but pre windows 11 it was a few). Systemd services are really simple and quite easy to make, and just run a task like you'd expect.
eviks
> deleted the files. How about them apples, Task Scheduler? > Obviously, Windows wasn't going to let me go by without punishment. Obviously! You just rent this piece of deprecated garbage, not own! > Now, I would receive errors for tasks not existing. And after fixing it, how do you deal with a system update that restores them? Have you found a way to monitor for a list of tasks and delete them should they ever appear again? (this would also be helpful if you delete some app tasks that come back on app updates)