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After the latest Windows 10 update, the procedure described in Conclusively stop wake timers from waking Windows 10 desktop no longer works. When attempting to save changes to the reboot task conditions, the user is asked to supply a password for account S-1-5-18, which is unknown. Taking ownership of the "reboot" file doesn't help. Can someone please supply an updated procedure? Thanks.

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  • S-1-5-18 is the SECURITY_LOCAL_SYSTEM_RID. msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/… so its the role that NT Authority\System belongs to. generally a scheduled task requires the account of the user that runs it when it is edited. you can try changing the user the task runs under, to one whose password you know.
    – Frank Thomas
    Commented Dec 15, 2017 at 4:32
  • I had already tried that and was unable to change the user the task runs under. Sorry, I should have been more specific: Can someone please supply a tested updated procedure?
    – Loren Meck
    Commented Dec 15, 2017 at 19:50
  • I have confirmed that the linked procedure, actually does work, on Windows 10 Version 1709.
    – Ramhound
    Commented Dec 19, 2017 at 13:24
  • Yes, it worked for me on that version also. It appeared to stop working after Windows installed updates for KB4058043 and KB4054517.
    – Loren Meck
    Commented Dec 20, 2017 at 9:02

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S-1-5-18 is the Local System account so it is not sufficient to be Admin to change taskschd for reboot for UpdateOrchestrator.

You can solve it by running as local system using tools like PsExec from SysInternals. Download sysinternals PSTools and run this command in an elevated command prompt (as administrator) to launch Task Scheduler: psexec -i -d -s mmc taskschd.msc

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