Windows 10: Task Scheduler - Trigger "At Logon" executes task BEFORE logon!?

Long story short:

I ended up using the Task Scheduler to run a batch file when the user logs on, which is after the user entered and confirmed their password.

Or so I thought, because it's described like this on every site and every forum.

Yet for some reason the task runs immediately after Windows launches. I know this because I can already connect to the server, that is started when the task executes said batch file.

In the task I also have a condition specifying the user, that has to be logged on. The task is set to execute on logon, and the trigger is set to "on log on" as well.

So I can only assume, that this is a bug, that nobody every noticed? Very odd indeed.

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List all tasks triggered by logon

After logon there are MANY background update tasks (adobe, AV, MBAM, chrome, etc). I'm trying to determine how to list ALL tasks that are triggered by logon. Thanks in advance.

 

scheduled task restart & logon

Ok, thanks Kari.
You mis-understood. I haven't schedule two starts. The task is just one restart at 4AM. There is no second restart.

Your suggestion of a lockworkstation command at logon sounds interesting. But then you say "all it needs to do is to have Windows sign you in automatically". That's the million dollar question I am asking. Can you explain what you mean by that? How can you get windows to sign you in automatically at the scheduled restart at 4AM? I don't want to just remove the Windows password requirement altogether. I want an automatic logon with my password to be executed at 4AM. Is there a command in task scheduler that can do that?

Regarding your other suggestion: Programming a scheduled power-on in BIOS is going to have the same problem. It will power on and boot, but it will not log-on because it needs password entry. Then when I arrive in the morning and wake it up, I will be doing the initial logon and this will trigger the various maintenance and update tasks that follow an initial logon. I want a bootup and initial logon to occur automatically before I come to work, so that all the update and maintenance stuff that follows it can occur before I arrive.

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Thanks dalchina.
The symantec scan is not scheduled on the windows task scheduler. It is built into the symantec client itself and I don't have editing priviledges, it is enforced by the organization.




I have asked IT and they say "tough luck, you just have to live with it". Others have the same problem, but most are not as stubborn or insistent as me.

The problem is very noticeable when it occurs. It's noticable because sometimes when I start work the computer is very very slow in responding to my commands, starting programs, responding to clicks. And when i look under task manager/performance it is evident that the disc read/write is working at 100% continuously, and under processes it is usually windows processes or symantec processes or other things that I cant identify that are at work.

 

Implementation of a hybrid IF(AND( trigger for Win-7 Task Scheduler

Hello to all,

I'm gaining a lot of experience using the Win-7 Task Scheduler to run taskseither at logon
OR on a schedule of selected days and months.

Now, I need to schedule a task that runs
ONLY when a logon occurs on specific days of specific months.

Conceptually this hybrid trigger would have to be a kind of nested
IF(AND statement that runs the task ONLY
if a logon occurs on Jan 11 or Mar 17 or Sep 19....etc.

Any help with this problem via the click-path within Task Scheduler is greatly appreciated.

However, if there is no solution going in that direction - can anyone suggest VBA code that would direct me down that, personally, is not so well trod path ?

Thanks again