Questions tagged [windows-task-scheduler]
Task Scheduler is a component of Microsoft Windows that provides the ability to schedule the launch of programs or scripts at predefined times or after specified time intervals.
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The selected task "{0}" no longer exists. To see the current tasks, click Refresh
When I start my task scheduler on Windows 7 I get a dialog with the following error:
The selected task "{0}" no longer exists. To see the current tasks,
click Refresh
Also there's a UUID, that ...
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How do I get Windows 10 to chime / beep on the hour?
I'd like the computer to beep on the hour without having to install an entire third party software just for this.
I tried using Task Scheduler for this, following the steps outlined here, but when I ...
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How do you schedule a task (using schtasks.exe) to run once and delete itself?
I want to schedule a task from the command prompt (using schtasks.exe) to run once and delete the task entry from the Task Scheduler Library after completion.
After looking through the usage guide, I ...
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Scheduled task giving last run result 0x80041324
I've got a scheduled task set up in my Windows 7 machine which is meant to run a BAT file when I'm not around, i.e. the machine has been idle for 15 minutes.
Does anyone know how to track down the ...
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How do I track the progress of XCopy command while It's running?
OPSYS: Win10Pro 64 bit
RAM: 10GB
I created a batch file which I then saved to the desktop of the local Administrator account.
The batch file command line is this:
xcopy "F:\movies" "L:\movies" ...
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Windows task schduler keep showing 0x41301
I have wrote the following .ps1 file:-
[System.Net.ServicePointManager]::ServerCertificateValidationCallback = {$true}
$request = [System.Net.WebRequest]::Create("https://localhost/")
$response = $...
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Task Scheduler returns Directory Name Invalid for valid path
I'm trying to use Task Scheduler to run a Ruby script every night. When I try to run the script, I get error 0x8007010B which seems to be Directory Name Invalid. The directory I'm starting in is a ...
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Delete the "Optimize Start Menu Cache Files" task
Many of you are probably familiar with the fact that when a new user logs into a server in Windows, there will be a new task created in the Task Scheduler which is called "Optimize Start Menu Cache ...
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How to start a Windows task on `Workstation Unlock` and add 2 or more triggers?
I'm using Windows 7, and I want to make a scheduled task with my options using the Task Scheduler command-line mode utility that is called "SchTasks".
But there are some problems using Schtasks:
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Scheduling silent hourly Windows Defender definition updates using Task Scheduler on Windows 8
I want to update Windows Defender's definitions every hour and came up with the idea of using the Task Scheduler to execute the Defender update service with the signature update argument.
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How can I allow non-administrators to use shutdown.exe?
As per the comments in the accepted answer to this question, I'm having issues running a scheduled task which calls shutdown.exe, even when the user is an administrator. I'm administrating someone ...
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What windows 7 task scheduler event would respond to an idle END condition?
The Windows 7 task scheduler allows me to run a task when the computer goes idle, but there doesn't seem to be any obvious way to run a task when the computer resumes from idle, or is no longer idle.
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task-scheduler: How can all users view/edit/run the same tasks?
I want all (or selected) users/admins to view/edit/run the same task. It seems that each user/admin only sees his own tasks and not the others users'.
This is quite confusing for me since on Linux a ...
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Windows Task automatically wakes my computer, but doesn't put it back to sleep after
My computer wakes itself up every day (presumably to do updates) which is fine by me, but it heats up my room by a considerable amount, and I rather not shut down, especially because it will ...
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Stopping a scheduled task with a batch file action doesn't stop the program running in the batch file
I have several scheduled tasks that each execute a (different) batch file. Each batch file calls into the same program, with with separate command line arguments. If I Stop a task while it's running, ...
