Windows 10: Scheduled Task Won't Launch Program with .bat File

I wrote a couple simple bat files to both shut down and launch Adobe Media Encoder on a Windows 10 machine. When I double click on them, both launch and execute flawlessly. However when I schedule a task and click to run them from the scheduled task, the status just shows as "Running" but nothing happens. When I go into processes I can see Adobe Media Encoder, but the initial launch screen never comes up much less the program opens. I've also noticed that when I launch from the bat file itself, Adobe ME shows up under APPS in task manager, but when I run from the scheduled task it shows up in background processes along with two other Adobe processes that when launched from the bat show up under Adobe Media Encoder CC2018:




I've tried the options I've seen on several forums such as having the task run cmd prompt with the argument being the bat and run from the containing folder. I've enabled full permissions on the folder with the bat for all users. It's run under the local admin account to that machine, run with highest privileges. Any other ideas?

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Task Scheduler and Bat File Problem


Hi,

Not sure which forum to post this in, but hopefully someone has some insight and can help me with this.

I have a simple .bat file that stops my media server, creates an archive of a folder (for backup purposes), and then starts the media server again. It works perfectly if I double click the .bat file, or if I run the bat file from the command prompt.

When I run it from Windows Task Scheduler, however, it does not work properly. The media server does not shut down. If I look in the task manager, though, I see that the archiving program has started. It is difficult to see what is happening because, unlinke when running this in CMD, when it is run from the task scheduler it produces no output to see if there is an error message.

Why would it run differently from the task scheduler than when I simply double click the .bat file? I have chosen to run it from the same user account, and also selected "run with highest privileges."

Here is the bat file. The first line stops the media server. The second line runs the archiving process (using 7zip). The third line starts the media server again. Again, it works perfectly if I simply double click the bat file.

Code:

Code:

@echo off  taskkill /im "plex media server.exe"  7za u C:\plexbackup.7z C:\plexdata -mx0 -up1q0r2x1y2z1w2  "C:\Program Files (x86)\Plex\Plex Media Server\plex media server.exe"

Anyone have insight?

Thanks.

 

Task Scheduler and Bat File Problem


In Task Scheduler Enable All Tasks History
Run the scheduled task
Refresh, and look at the History tab for that task.
Look at each entry in history and see if you can find an error message/code for any step in the task run.

 

Schedules task has slow network transfers?

I have a bat file that I use to backup all my data from one computer to another. They are on a gigabit network.

When I run the bat file normally(by double clicking it), it will transfer fast. Network untilization is usually in the 40-50% range.


Now, if I schedule a task to run the bat file, it transfers extremely slow. Network utilization is usually in the 2-3% range.

It takes multiple hours to finish the backup if it runs as a task and there is any new data.

Are scheduled tasks limitted in some why that might be causing this?

This is Vista x64.