Have you ever wished you could back up your scheduled tasks in Windows? I’ve often wished for this, given how often I end up reformatting my machine and/or reinstalling Windows. I’ve always made do with making a list of the scheduled tasks in my Scheduled Tasks folder and then recreating them on the new incarnation. I’ve even gone so far as to take screenshots of the settings, so that it was easier to recreate the tasks.

I’ve recently discovered, completely by accident, that it’s actually possible to backup your tasks. Not only that, but it’s painfully easy.

All you have to do is to copy the tasks to another folder that won’t disappear when you reformat. What? That’s it? Yup. If you poke around the Scheduled Tasks folder, you’ll find that “Copy To” and “Move To” are options in the Edit toolbar menu. Yeeesh. I wish I had known this years ago. Now, every time I create a new scheduled task, or change an old one, I make sure to copy it to a backup folder somewhere else. Easy as pie.