Can a Scheduled Task be renamed?

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Fred B.

Hi,

Once created, is there a way to rename a scheduled task, or does a "new"
task have to be created with the desired name?


Thanks
 
Fred B. said:
Hi,

Once created, is there a way to rename a scheduled task, or does a "new"
task have to be created with the desired name?


Thanks
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The option appears to be missing.

You could right-click the task and export it as .xml, and then rename the
..xml file, and reimport it , by right-clicking a folder in the left pane.

Alternatively you could delete the recreate the task via scripting

eg 'schtasks' for batch file, or ProgID "Schedule.Service" using VBScript
/JScript

Start > cmd > schtasks /?
 
Fred B. said:
Thanks .......
Now I have a starting point, which I didn't have before.


Regards
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yw..

One odd thing I just noticed is that if you rename the task by opening up

C:\Windows\System32\Tasks\

and try simply renaming the task in the relevant subfolder, then the task
disappears from Task Scheduler (upon reopening). If you rename it back again
it reappears. This is despite the fact that the task itself appears to be in
plain text format - you can open it up in Notepad /. Wordpad to see the xml.
Possibly another security feature in Vista.

Not that that helps at all with your problem, but thought it was
interesting.
 
Thanks again,

Exporting 5 tasks to .XML, renaming, and importing took about 10 minutes.

Simple, when a person knows what to do.
 
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