Windows 10: Windows 10 Pro rel. 2004 Task Scheduler suddenly stopped running batch files

Beginning about four days ago, all three of my Windows 10 machines stopped running batch files scheduled in the Task Scheduler. These batch files had been running on schedule for over a year when all three suddenly stopped about the same time. I believe that this is about the time that the September 2020 Preview Cumulative Update installed. Task Scheduler reports that "Access is denied. 0x80070005. I have tried running them directly as batch files and running "c:\windows\system32\cmd.exe" with the arguments "/c c:\bt\filename.bat" and both fail. I do have the starting directory shown as "c:\bt." All quotation marks are just to separate the commands from the rest of my message and do not appear in the boxes. I did an image restore from October 1 and brought my files up to date, and everything worked again until the update reinstalled itself. I could do the same thing again and postpone the updates, but, sooner or later, the update will be forced upon me and I would like to find a solution to this. Besides, it is very time consuming to restore and bring three systems back up to current data.



I've been playing with this now for three days and I'm at a loss. I've run SFC /scannow with no results and I also ran DISM to try to fix the Task Scheduler. I did try to go back to a previous System Restore and that failed. Whereto from here?

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Task Scheduler Batch file

Hi all,

Looking for some help.Im creating a batch file to run for different users to add a scheduled task. HOWEVER - the whole thing works great and has done for some time.But after i run the batch file on each machine (different users) i have to go into the security options and change the user the task runs in to the unique user of that machine. Is there a way to use the batch file to pull the account name of the machine (or computer name) and use that as the user the task runs in?


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task scheduler & batch files

The Task scheduler is at C:\Windows\System32\taskschd.msc and a shortcut to it is also shown in Start menu, Windows administrative tools.

Since you are going on to consider running batch files using Task scheduler, have a look at

Make Windows 10 Task scheduler run a batch file minimised and with a specific icon - Forum article

Denis

 

Batch files appear to start but don't fully execute on Windows 10 Task Scheduler

I recently set up a new system with Windows 10 Pro and copied the C:\Batch folder to the new system

These systems are essentially identical in their hardware configuration except for the motherboard, memory & video card. ( Borh are ASUS Motherboards and Video cards with i7 Processors.)

All drives are duplicated in size, manufactures and drive letter assignment.



I use Robocopy in a batch file to copy files at the end of the day to a second set of hard drives on the same box.
This has been executing perfectly on Windows 7 for years.



When I attempt to set this up in Scheduler on Windows 10, Scheduler says it is running but there is no activity taking place.
Task Manager and Resource Monitor bear this out not to mention the obvious that the files aren't copied across.

When I execute this batch file from the command prompt it runs as expected.
There are no "call" statements in the batch file.



Example:

Robocopy /MIR /MT:8 /R:2 /W:5 /Log:H:\!BackupLogs\BULog.txt /X /V /TEE "C:\Batch" "H:\DataBU\Batch"



I have configured Task Scheduler as follows:



Under General Tab I have set the user account under Security Options to the Domain user that has local admin rights.

It is set to run whether user is logged on or not and with the highest privileges.

Configure for Windows 10 is selected



Triggers; it is set to run daily at 23:00:00. It is set to stop the task if it runs later than 1 day and it is enabled.



Actions tab is set to 'Start a Program' and the full path to the batch file is correct.
There are no arguments added and I have entered 'C:\Batch' as the 'Start In' option.



Conditions have Start task only if on AC power and Wake computer to run this task selected.



Settings have the following selected:

- Allow task to be run on demand

- Run task as soon as possible after . . .

- Stop task if runs longer is set to 1 day

- If the running task does not end . . . force it to stop

And 'Do not start a new instance' is selected



The History will show;

- Event 107 - Task Triggered on Scheduler

- Event 129 - Created Task Process

- Event 100 - Task Started

- Event 200 - Action Started



And it will sit there until I manually stop it. I haven’t let it run for 24 hour but this task should only take seconds.

On my W7 box, this task executes and ends in under 3 minutes daily.

Any suggestions would be appreciated.