How to set up a Windows Scheduled Task to delete a specific file every 2 weeks?

Question

I need to delete a specific file every 2 weeks. The file is: C:\Logfile.txt

I thought I could use Windows Task Sceduler to do this, but there seems to be no option to create a 'Delete File' task.

Can someone help with this please?

Cheers for all help

Answer 1

As @Akina's comment states, you'll either want to use the del command directly:

cmd /c del /f /q "C:\Logfile.txt"

or via a batch file your scheduled task would point to:

@echo off

del /f /q "C:\Logfile.txt"

exit

Either way, I would likely include the /f to ignore the read-only attribute and the /q avoid a confirmation prompt - this way nothing should hang the task up.