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great, sounds easy enough. thanks!
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I was wondering is there was a way (preferably free) to set up some maintenance tasks (defrag and disk cleanup) across many networked machines; most of which are xp, some are win2k.<br />
My initial idea was to use xp's built in task scheduler but i wasnt sure how to send the changes over to the other workstations. Any ideas?
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I was wondering is there was a way (preferably free) to set up some maintenance tasks (defrag and disk cleanup) across many networked machines; most of which are xp, some are win2k.
My initial idea was to use xp's built in task scheduler but i wasnt sure how to send the changes over to the other workstations. Any ideas?

Add scheduled tasks to multiple machines over network

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Windows XP

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