Issue with Task Scheduler launching a task

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I have a task scheduled in my Windows 2008 R2 machine but it failed to trigger with the following error in the log  Event logs    Error   Task Scheduler failed to start   Hyatt International Distribution  task for user  SAFFRON3 cb admin   Additional Data  Error Value  2147943645   Task Scheduler failed to start Task Engine     process due to an error occurring in  LUAIsElevatedToken    Command  taskeng exe    Additional Data  Error Value  2147943645   The complete error is as below   Log Name       Microsoft-Windows-TaskScheduler Operational Source         Microsoft-Windows-TaskScheduler Date           4 16 2012 9 59 59 AM Event ID       101 Task Category  Task Start Failed Level          Error Keywords  User           SYSTEM Computer       xyz Description  Task Scheduler failed to start   Distribution  task for user  SAFFRON3 cb admin   Additional Data  Error Value  2147943645  Event Xml    lt Event xmlns  http   schemas microsoft com win 2004 08 events event  gt     lt System gt       lt Provider Name  Microsoft-Windows-TaskScheduler  Guid   de7b24ea-73c8-4a09-985d-5bdadcfa9017     gt       lt EventID gt 101 lt  EventID gt       lt Version gt 0 lt  Version gt       lt Level gt 2 lt  Level gt       lt Task gt 101 lt  Task gt       lt Opcode gt 101 lt  Opcode gt       lt Keywords gt 0x8000000000000000 lt  Keywords gt       lt TimeCreated SystemTime  2012-04-16T14 59 59 950Z    gt       lt EventRecordID gt 101476 lt  EventRecordID gt       lt Correlation   gt       lt Execution ProcessID  336  ThreadID  1216    gt       lt Channel gt Microsoft-Windows-TaskScheduler Operational lt  Channel gt       lt Computer gt xyz lt  Computer gt       lt Security UserID  S-1-5-18    gt     lt  System gt     lt EventData Name  TaskStartFailedEvent  gt       lt Data Name  TaskName  gt  Distribution lt  Data gt       lt Data Name  UserContext  gt SAFFRON3 cb admin lt  Data gt       lt Data Name  ResultCode  gt 2147943645 lt  Data gt     lt  EventData gt   lt  Event gt    The task is set as  Run s if user is logged in or not  With Highest privileges  Power  Start when on AC power  Allow task run on demand   The task runs almost everyday  correctly  but failed yesterday  Any particular reason

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Thanks all  I had the same issue  I have a task that runs via a generic user account not linked to a particular person  This user as somehow logged off the VM  when I was trying to fix it I was logged in as me and not that user   Logging back in with that user fixed the issue

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I solved the issue by opening up the properties on the exe-file itself  On the tab Compatibility there s a check box for privilege level that says  Run this as an administrator   Even though my account have administration privileges it didn t work when I started it from task scheduler    I unchecked the box and started it from the scheduler again and it worked

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I was having the same issue  I tried with the compatibility option  but in Windows 10 it doesn t show the compatibility option  The following steps solved the problem for me    I made sure the account with which the task was running had the full access privileges on the file to be executed   Executed the task and was still not running  I man taskschd msc as administrator I added the account to run the task  whether was it logged or not  I executed the task and now IT WORKED    So somehow setting up the task in taskschd msc as a regular user wasn t working  even though my account is an admin one   Hope this helps anyone having the same issue

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Right Click on the Task in Task Scheduler Click on the Actions tab Click on Edit Remove the quotes around the path in the  Starts In  textbox

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As far as I know you will need to give the domain account the proper  User Rights  such as  Log on as a Batch Job   You can check that in your Local Policies  Also  you might have a Domain GPO which is overwriting your local policies  I bet if you add this Domain Account into the local admin group of that machine  your problem will go away  A few articles for you to check   http   social technet microsoft com Forums en windowsserver2008r2general thread 9edcb63a-d133-45a0-9e8c-f1b774765531 http   social technet microsoft com Forums lv winservergen thread 68019b24-78a5-4db0-a150-ada921930924 http   sqlsolace blogspot com 2009 08 task-scheduler-task-does-not-run-error html m 1 http   technet microsoft com en-us library cc722152 aspx

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On properties   Check whether radio button is selected for   Run only when user is logged on    If you selected for the above option then that is the reason why it is failed   so change the option to   Run whether user is logged on or not   OR   In other case  user might have changed his her login credentials

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My task was set to Run only when user is logged on and it was failing for me even while I was logged in and starting it manually  The user was set to me already  No password changes  etc   I solved it by clicking  Change user  and selecting myself again    I suspect it may have been caused by AD changing the user SID or something to that extent  Perhaps IT was doing some user management in AD  who knows

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Check whether you are scheduling a task to trigger an executable   exe  or a batch   bat  file  If you have scheduled any other file to open  for example a  txt or  docx file   the file not open

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My task also failed to start   I solved it by specifying not only the path to the executable  but also the path to the folder of the executable  Tab  Actions    Edit   TextBox  Start in

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