tasks stopped running

[Guest]

I've been reading the questions and answers regarding task manager problems
and none address the issue I am facing. My tasks no longer run. I have
scheduled tasks that are still showing up in task manager and their
respective programsl however, none run when scheduled. Even my video taping
schedules or my computer's television program will not run when programmed.

All was working fine until a few weeks ago when an automatic update of
Windows ran. Then suddenly none of my scheduled tasks would run. I can find
no reason for this and I don't know what update caused this.

Any ideas?

 

[Pegasus \(MVP\)]

I've been reading the questions and answers regarding task manager
problems
and none address the issue I am facing. My tasks no longer run. I have
scheduled tasks that are still showing up in task manager and their
respective programsl however, none run when scheduled. Even my video
taping
schedules or my computer's television program will not run when
programmed.

All was working fine until a few weeks ago when an automatic update of
Windows ran. Then suddenly none of my scheduled tasks would run. I can
find
no reason for this and I don't know what update caused this.

Any ideas?

- What makes you think that your tasks no longer run?
- What exactly is the command line in the Task Scheduler
(or the batch file behind the command line)?
- What does the Task Scheduler log file report?

 

[Guest]

What makes me think the tasks are not running? I guess the fact that they are
not. I don't know how to check these other things you've asked about. This is
what I can tell you. I have programs I use all the time to tape programs, run
routine maintenance, and perform other tasks. None have run in weeks. They
were all running fine and as scheduled prior to an automatic update that
windows did. All task functions were programmed into the respective programs
to run at certain times. The taping of shows varies depending on what I need
to tape. I set that through the software I use.

Any task of this nature that I set up, no matter what software I use, has
always shown up in the task manager. They are all still there. However, when
the time comes for a program to tape or a feature to run according to what I
have set, nothing happens. Never had any problems before that update and
don't know what updated exactly that caused this.

Every software I use still has the times programmed in and shows the tasks
as being on schedule but never having run. For example, my WinTV Scheduler
still shows the programs I have set to tape, but they never tape anymore. I
scheduled Norton to run a routine maintenance on Friday nights and it did
every Friday until a few weeks ago. It runs nothing now unless I go in and
start it manually.

This is really irritating because I do not know what has caused these
things to stop running. I don't know what to look at to find out.

 

[Pegasus \(MVP\)]

I asked you what made you think that the tasks were not
running. You replied that you are not getting the expected
results. That's fine but there are at least two other possibilities:

- The tasks might be running but they might bomb out for
some reason.
- The tasks might hang before they finish their job.

The Task Scheduler log file will give you some clues. It is
accessible under Advanced in the Task Scheduler screen.

The Command Line for each task becomes visible in the
Run field when you double-click a task.

In the same screen you see the account used to run the task.
It is essential that the password you enter is correct for this
account.

An easy way to test scheduled tasks goes like this:
- Put these lines into c:\Windows\Test.bat:
@echo off
echo %date% %time% %UserName% >> c:\test.txt
- Schedule c:\Windows\Test.bat via the Task Scheduler.
- Check the contents of c:\test.txt after the test task
is supposed to have run. What's inside?

 

[GreenEnvy22]

I've been reading the questions and answers regarding task manager problems
and none address the issue I am facing. My tasks no longer run. I have
scheduled tasks that are still showing up in task manager and their
respective programsl however, none run when scheduled. Even my video taping
schedules or my computer's television program will not run when programmed.

All was working fine until a few weeks ago when an automatic update of
Windows ran. Then suddenly none of my scheduled tasks would run. I can find
no reason for this and I don't know what update caused this.

Any ideas?

We're were having the same issue at work. We have a server that runs
several SQL processes on a schedule. The sql process runs a script on
a shared drive. As of Aug 28th, no processes have run. They appear to
run normally, the tasks shows as completing normally, however it never
actually runs the process.
If I copy/paste the commandline from the task to a dos prompt, it runs
fine.
If I tell a scheduled task to run now, it says running, then it looks
like it completes, however the actual task was not performed.

I did a test and created a new task that just opens windows
calculator. I manually ran it, and nothing appeared on screen. I
checked task manager, and I can see calc.exe in the list, but it's not
visible. I had setup the task under the currently logged in user, so
it should have appeared on screen.

I then did another test, I made a bat file that deleted a text file,
that won runs properly.

This was being done by me using remote desktop to connect to the
server. I found later the reason I was not seeing the tasks, was
while I was logged into the server as the user the tasks ran as, the
same account was also logged on as console, so the tasks were opening
on that session. This led me to the actual problem. I logged off the
RDP session and reconnected again as console.
Here I found the issue. While my normal RDP session showed my mapped
drive as connected, and I could browse it fine, the console session
showed the drive as disconnected. I reconnected the network drive, and
now my tasks run properly.

I don't know if this helps you or not, but if you are using RDP, then
RDP in as console (mstsc.exe /console -v:IPOFSERVER), or sit at the
actual server, and make sure there are no other instances of your user
logged into it (task manager, users tab).
Try running it from there to see if you can find your problem, the
tasks should at least show up now so you can track down the failure.


My RDP (remote desktop) session was