Task Scheduler Starts but not Finishes

[Larry Nguyen]

I set up a job to run NOTEPAD.EXE in Windows Task
Scheduler. It starts to run as expected and the 'Status'
column shows 'Running'. However, the Notepad session never
completely get launched in a new window.

I tried to set up for other command like IExplorer.exe,
calculator, etc...and none of them come up.

Could some one help?

Thanks

 

[Jerold Schulman]

I set up a job to run NOTEPAD.EXE in Windows Task
Scheduler. It starts to run as expected and the 'Status'
column shows 'Running'. However, the Notepad session never
completely get launched in a new window.

I tried to set up for other command like IExplorer.exe,
calculator, etc...and none of them come up.

Could some one help?

Thanks

Are you scheduling them in your user context?

When you run services.msc and double click Task Scheduler, is the
"Allow service to interact with desktop" box checked on the logon tab?


Jerold Schulman
Windows: General MVP
JSI, Inc.
http://www.jsiinc.com

 

[Jason Hall [MSFT]]

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Sender: "Larry Nguyen" <[email protected]>
Subject: Task Scheduler Starts but not Finishes
Date: Mon, 14 Jun 2004 16:44:03 -0700

I set up a job to run NOTEPAD.EXE in Windows Task
Scheduler. It starts to run as expected and the 'Status'
column shows 'Running'. However, the Notepad session never
completely get launched in a new window.

I tried to set up for other command like IExplorer.exe,
calculator, etc...and none of them come up.

Could some one help?

Thanks

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Hi Larry,

You need to make sure that the credentials used to run the scheduled task
are for the same user that is logged in to the workstation at the time that
the job runs.
If this is not the case, then you will not see the user interface of the
application running. This is done for security reasons.

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