Seem to be talking to myself here, but never mind.
I seem to be having real problems in getting any scheduled task having an
"idle time" condition to run at all, when I expect it should.
I set up one to run "shutdown /s /f" at 1.30am each day, but only if the
computer has been idle for 15 minutes... but this task has never run
successfully at the appointed time. But when I manually hit the run button
on this task, sure enough the computer shuts down OK -- so no problem with
the command itself.
I suspect that anytime I include an "idle time" condition the task refuses
to run, for some reason.
Any ideas on this?
Thanks,
Mike
"Mike B" wrote:
> OK, here's an update.
>
> I mentioned that I'd set this scheduled task to Trigger on login to my
> account, but also with a Condition that there should be idle time for 1
> minute.
>
> So, I tried removing the "idle time" condition, and lo and behold the
> scheduled task now runs fine, and copies the file, a short time after I log
> in.
>
> So, the question is now: "why doesn't the idle time condition work for me in
> this situation"? I have read that "idle time" is always assumed to be
> happening when the screensaver is on, whatever the CPU is doing in the
> background on other tasks? Is that right?
>
> It seems that my previous task *did* try to trigger on idle time, but for
> some reason couldn't complete properly (0x41325 code).
>
> Any idea why this happened?
>
> I am running Diskeeper, which itself looks for CPU idle time and then
> defrags during idle time... could that be messing up my scheduled "idle time"
> task? I thought not, given that (apparently) the scheduler assumes it's idle
> time if the screensaver is on... and the screensaver *does* come on even when
> Diskeeper is running in the background.
>
> Thanks for any help.
>
> Mike
>
>
>
> "Mike B" wrote:
>
> > I'm on Vista Ultimate. I'm trying to set up a scheduled task which will copy
> > a file from within my AppData folder (I'm an Admin, running with UAC on) to
> > another local user's AppData folder (they're a normal User).
> >
> > My basic Action in the task is:
> >
> > Program:
> > robocopy
> > Arguments:
> > "C:\Users\Mike\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Media Player"
> > "C:\Users\Hesper\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Media Player"
> > CurrentDatabase_360.wmdb /SEC
> >
> > I've ticked the "Run with highest privileges" box on the General tab, since
> > I think that is necessary to copy stuff into another users folder?
> >
> > I've set this to Trigger on login to my account, but a Condition is that
> > there should be idle time for 1 minute.
> >
> > OK. So, when I select this scheduled task and manually hit the Run button
> > in the scheduler window, it works fine: a cmd window pops up and I see
> > robocopy's progress in copying the file to completion.
> >
> > BUT... when I leave this task to self-trigger, things do NOT work out so
> > well. The file is NOT copied. Nothing ever seems to happen.
> >
> > In the top panel, under the "Last Run Result" column, it says (0x41325).
> >
> > So, what gives? Why does this work when I run the task manually, but not
> > when it self-triggers?
> >
> > Thanks for any help.
> >
> > Mike
> >
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