Can't Run Scheduled Tasks
May 26, 2009
I have read all of the search-engine hits I can find, and they all seem to point to the fact that you can't run scheduled tasks in Vista Home Premium using a regular username even when you supply the correct password. Vista forgets the password and gives the error "2147943726 (Logon failure: unknown user name or bad password)" whenever it tries to run a scheduled task (scheduled at the same time every day) after the computer is rebooted.
For my task -- a backup program to a network disk -- I can't use the "Do not store password. The task will only have access to local computer resources" checkbox, since the task needs access to the network disk. And the "run with highest privileges" checkbox doesn't have any effect. I still get the "Logon failure" message when the task tries to run after I reboot. None of the discussions I have found by searching the 'net actually have a solution.
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Nov 12, 2009
In Unix there are services called cron jobs which basically are nothing more than processes scheduled to run routinely every so often. I think these are called
scheduled tasks. So how do I set up a scheduled task under Windows Vista Home Premium so that for instance every day around 11:30 PM my laptop powers off whenever I have left it switched on (so that it does not wake up anybody in the middle of the night which has been happening to me).
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Dec 5, 2009
Even though I have the Google Update Service disabled in services it still shows in Task Manager's Processes tab and appears to be running.
I don't see the file in any startup place in Vista Basic or in the Startup folder in my Start Menu.
I can't find it in Scheduled Tasks.
Is there anywhere else I might look to disable this annoying service?
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Feb 17, 2010
I am creating simple on a schedule (one time only) tasks which run fine if the time trigger is reached whilst the computer is on and I'm logged in, but fail to run if the computer is shutdown or asleep when the trigger time is reached, even with "Run task as soon as possible after a scheduled start is missed" checked. I am aware that missed scheduled tasks aren't ran immediately on start-up (10 min delay?) but they never run. There are no events regarding the tasks in event log and the last run status is "Never" so they just don't seem to be picked up as missed tasks.
I have unchecked all the idle/power options so the task should run whatever. I have tried checking the "Run with highest privileges" box and checking "Run when user is logged on" or "Run whether user is logged on or not" The tasks will run manually fine if I select run from "actions". At the moment I'm just trying to get a one-time scheduled task to display a message so I'm not trying anything fancy. Setting the task to run at logon or startup works fine. The system time/date is set Ok. A Google search revealed one guy with a similar problem but no solution. This is Vista HP sp2 with all important updates applied - running on an acer aspire laptop. A friends Samsung with the same Vista setup also shows this behaviour.
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Mar 31, 2008
I rebooted my system at about 18:30 and it's now 22:30 and now I have 47 separate Taskeng.exe processes running - need help in stopping them from mutliplying further! I can't tell from the Process tab of the Task Manager what the taskeng.exe processes refer to, and the Task Scheduler says there are only 8 running tasks.
There are 5 tasks that I created myself and know about, and they all say under Settings "Don't start a new instance" if already running. I can find all these tasks in the Process Tab of the Task Manager via the Process ID, where I see that the apps they started appear in the Image Name column (rather than as taskeng.exe processes).
In trying to work out the rest I looked at the "Command Line" column of Task Manager Processes which shows that each taskeng.exe has a long {hex}code assocaited with it - the {HEX} being what I assume are GUID's of some description but since they don't correspond to the "Correlation ID" codes in the Task Scheduler "History" I'm lost...
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Mar 23, 2008
I've managed to put together a suitable Vista image, resealed and ready to distribute. It does everything I need it to except I can't seem to find a way to do these last two things: I need for Windows Automatic Updates to be turned off and for the user to not get bugged about it. I need for Security Center notifications to be turned off, and the tray icon to not be displayed, for at least the first 3 users created. Please, don't tell me that I shouldn't be doing this, etc., - this is what I'm being directed to accomplish by management. I just need a way to automate it. Right now, when the system unseals it runs an app I wrote that automates a few things before the system auto logs in as the system administrator for a final piece of software to be installed. I'd like for my app to take care of those last two things instead of having the end users perform them manually. I found a couple of registry keys/values that looked promising, but they don't work:.........................
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Mar 26, 2008
I've managed to put together a suitable Vista image, resealed and ready to distribute. It does everything I need it to except I can't seem to find a way to do these last two things: I need for Windows Automatic Updates to be turned off and for the user to not get bugged about it. I need for Security Center notifications to be turned off, and the tray icon to not be displayed, for at least the first 3 users created. this is what I'm being directed to accomplish by management. I just need a way to automate it.
Right now, when the system unseals it runs an app I wrote that automates a few things before the system auto logs in as the system administrator for a final piece of software to be installed. I'd like for my app to take care of those last two things instead of having the end users perform them manually. I found a couple of registry keys/values that looked promising, but they don't work:In HKLMSOFTWAREMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionWindowsUpdateAuto Update, AUOptions set to dword:1 and IncludeRecommendedUpdates set to....................
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Aug 19, 2008
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Transient Multi-Monitor Manager
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Mobile PC- Launches application configured for windows Hot Start (I do not use a Mobile PC)Multi Media System Sounds- User mode Agent Shell- Index all Crawl type Start Addresses Does anyone know why these task are running all the time and whether I can delete or disable them?
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Dec 10, 2009
If you change the name of your computer (under Control PanelSystem and MaintenanceSystem), then the scheduled task that Windows Calendar has will NOT be updated with the new name of the computer. The result is that this scheduled task does not run properly when it is supposed to, and when you open up the Task Scheduler, you get an error popping up in Task Scheduler:
"An error has ocurred for the task Reminders - {User Name}. Error message: The specified account name is not valid."
Where {User Name} is your user name.
Solution: ...
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Jun 7, 2008
I have the following problem which cannot fix for a few weeks now and growing increasingly frustrated: Sending emails always generates the following message: 'some errors occurred while processing the requested tasks'. The message then stays in the outbox and the contents of message are deleted. I then need to delete the message which goes into the deleted items folder.
However, the email does actually get sent which I've verified by i) checking on send server of gmail and ii) sending/blind copying myself which comes into Windows mail inbox in the normal way. I would greatly welcome advice on how to remove the error message such that outbox messages automatically go to the sent folder rather than generating the error message and the message contents completely disappearing.
The only workaround is to bcc myself on outgoing mail so that I have a record of what I have sent from WM which then appears in the inbox with the text intact. As background, I have installed the Vista and WMutil patch and run all the checks and tabs to no avail. I have had AVG anti-virus installed for over 1 year. The problem manifests itself consistently in different countries and for both ADSL and wireless so i've discounted this as an ISP issue.
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Mar 8, 2009
I have a bat file that runs without errors on the command line. Uses robocopy to back up document drectory. The scheduler history states it started, action completed with an error code 16 (don't know what this means) and task successfully completed? But I do not think it is actually executing the bat file.
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