Windows 7 Task Scheduler Issue

[hennessy1]

I have my computer set in the BIOS to turn on at a certain time and set up the shutdown.exe program in task scheduler to turn off the computer at a certain time as well. The computer wakes up fine but does not turn off as I had intended it to. When I look at the history it says the task completed successfully but I know it has not. This issue happens regardless if there is a user logged in or not.

I set the task with the highest privileges and to run a certain number of times until the task has been completed and to stop the task if it gets stuck and try again.

Thank you for any help.

 

[theevilsharpie]

I would run the command you gave it manually in cmd to verify that it actually works the way you intend.

 

[hennessy1]

run the shutdown.exe command? For example like this "Shutdown -s"?

 

[hennessy1]

So I did what you said and tried to run the task and nothing happened. Where should I start to look for making this work? I looked under gpedit and the user is there for being allowed to shutdown the computer.

 

[imagoon]

I use something like this:

app:

%systemroot%\system32\shutdown.exe

arguments

-t 0 -s

Then in the properties: change the run as user to an admin account
"run whether the user is logged in or not"

 

[hennessy1]

Well adding those switches did the trick I actually added a few more just to be sure it ran. The current string reads like this
"shutdown.exe -s /y /c /t:00" and I tested it out and worked like a charm. Thank you very much for pointing me in the right direction.