Scheduled Task Didn't Run?

Jul 31, 2013

I should have had an automatic system restore backup today (It's been 7 days since the last system backup). It didn't happen, so I checked the Task Scheduler, and I see that System Restore task last ran yesterday morning at 8:46. Why didn't it run this morning?

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C:WINDOWSsystem32>powercfg -waketimers
Timer set by [SERVICE] DeviceHarddiskVolume1WindowsSystem32svchost.exe (Sys
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Reason: Windows will execute 'NT TASKMicrosoftWindowsTaskSchedulerRegular
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[code]...

So it appears that "Regular Maintenance" is waking my computer. But why isn't it returning to sleep? It used to.

I then went to Power Options > Edit Plan Settings. These settings are still correct (Put the computer to sleep: 30 minutes).

Next I checked the Task Scheduler. Under "Active Tasks" I found "Regular Maintenance".

Next run time: 3:53 AM tomorrow. That very closely matches the 4:01 AM listed in "powercfg -waketimers", but I find it odd that it is after the scheduled time.

Triggers: At 3:00 AM every day

Doubling clicking on Regular Maintenance provides more detail.

Last Run Time: 5:46 AM

Last Run Result: operation completed successfully

However, another item in here is "Idle Maintenance".

Triggers: when computer is idle

Last Run Time: 5:46 AM

Last Run Result: The process terminated unexpectedly. (0x8007042B)

All of my drive partitions are scheduled to optimize weekly rather than daily. My computer is waking up daily.

Last night I turned all scheduled optimization off. This morning my computer was again woken from it sleep.

The cmd prompt gives me the same reason for the wake (Regular Maintenance).

Task Scheduler shows Regular Maintenance as:

Last Run Time: This morning at 4:36 AM

Last Run Result: The last run of the task was terminated by the user. (0x41306)

Under Idle Maintenance it shows nothing for this morning.

What does this mean? Optimization ran despite me turning it off?

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2. However, if I check the box for "Allow scheduled maintenance to wake up my computer at the scheduled time" in the Action Center (Change Maintenance Settings), it WILL NOT reflect in the Properties of the Regular Maintenance Task in Task Schedular. Specially, I check the box to wake up my computer in the Action Center Maintenance Settings, but the corresponding checkmark is NOT reflected ("Wake the computer to run this task"), in the properties of the actual task in Task Scheduler.

3. I then put the checkmark directly in the Regular Maintenance Task itself ("Wake the computer to run this task"). However, at some point in the future, (not right away; I close and then reopen the task to make sure that it 'sticks'), the checkmark "disappears. Then, the task does not run at night while the computer is asleep, but runs in the morning when I wake the computer for regular use. At that point, the checkmark in the task is gone.

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But when I do that on Windows 8, it still play in 5 FPS, and Frame Interpolation didn't work.

When I play the video stream in Windows Media Player 11 on windows 7 and enable Video Smoothing, it works and played on 25 FPS, but in Windows Media Player 12 in Windows 8 it didn't work also.

The Codec used in the video is (Windows Media Video 9)

this line of code enables frame interpolation on decoder

hr = pReaderAdvanced2->SetOutputSetting(i, g_wszEnableFrameInterpolation, WMT_TYPE_BOOL, (BYTE*)&checkedIfSmooth, sizeof(BOOL));

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I didn't get the email either, so I clicked on "I can't do this right now".

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I have gotten the message in Action Center, to reboot to scan and repair errors which works fine. Right clicking my boot drive, going to the Tools tab and scanning drive for errors also works. My only issue is scheduling to check my boot partition for errors via command prompt.

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