why windows 7 task scheduler task fails with error 2147942667

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I am facing a strange problem  I have scheduled a task to lauch a batch file  When I run the task with option Run only when user is logged on everything works fine  but I want to run this task in background and hence i am running it using the option Run whether user is logged on or not  Now when i run the task it is not working  I get following 2 errors  I don t understand this error  Please help me resolve this issue    Task Scheduler failed to launch action  C  Windows SYSTEM32 cmd exe  in instance   2a7cc950-fad9-4633-9701-af75a0fd220d   of task   stmm Daemon   Additional Data  Error Value  2147942667   Task Scheduler failed to start instance   2a7cc950-fad9-4633-9701-af75a0fd220d   of   stmm Daemon   task for user  GBLADHEDANI N011940    Additional Data  Error Value  2147942667

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This can happen for more than one reason  In my case this happened due to a permissions issue  The user that the task was running as didn t have permission to write to the logs directory so it failed with this error

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For me it was the  Start In  -  I accidentally left in the   py  at the end of the name of my program   And I forgot to capitalize the name of the folder it was in   Apps

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For a more generic answer  convert the error value to hex  then lookup the hex value at Windows Task Scheduler Error and Success Constants

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For me it was the  Start In  - I copied the values from an older server  and updated the path to the new  exe location  but I forgot to update the  start in  location - if it doesn t exist  you get this error too  Quoting  hans-passant  s comment from above  because it is valuable to debugging this issue      Convert the error code to hex to get 0x8007010B  The 7 makes it a   Windows error  Which makes 010B error code 267   The directory name is   invalid   Sure  that happens

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For me  this was due to the user PATH environment variable  which didn t seem to work even though the user was correct  so I needed to put the entire executable path into the program field

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I had the same problem  on Windows7   I was getting error 2147942667 and a report of being unable to run c  windows system32 CMD EXE    I tried with and without double quotes in the Script and Start-in and it made no difference   Then I tried replacing all path references to mapped network drives and with UNC references   Server1 Sharexx my scripts run this cmd  and that fixed it for me  Pat

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I had this same issue   The solution for me was found in the Microsoft KB Article 2452723   Windows Vista onwards scheduled tasks fail to run if the path in  Start in  Optional   field has quotes  Basically  edit your scheduled task and take the Quotes out of the Start In field    Open your Scheduled Task Switch to  Actions  tab Open your Action Remove Quotes     from the field  Start in  optional   Save and close all open dialogs     To get the relevant error message   1  Convert 2147942667 to hex  8007010B 2  Take last 4 digits  010B  and convert to decimal   267 3  Run   net helpmsg 267 4  Result   The directory name is invalid

[windows-7] why windows 7 task scheduler task fails with error 2147942667

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