If you are a schedule-oriented person, and want to have certain events and happenings to be performed at a specific time of the day, Microsoft Windows allows you to schedule specific programs or tools within your operating system with this premise in mind. All versions of Microsoft Windows (95/98, 2000, XP, Vista, and 7) provide a way for the user to schedule a program at a specific time or date. In this tutorial post, I will be showing you how to access the Scheduled Tasks program in Microsoft Windows XP.

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Dave, I have a new PC that is running Microsoft Windows 7 and I really like it, but I’ve got a problem: a few of the programs I used for data analysis in my job haven’t been updated since the days of Windows XP and I can’t run them on Win7 at all. Can I install Windows XP and dual boot or otherwise have the best of both worlds?
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