{"id":1150,"date":"2014-12-09T18:07:44","date_gmt":"2014-12-09T23:07:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/montgomeryminds.com\/blog\/?p=1150"},"modified":"2014-12-09T18:14:10","modified_gmt":"2014-12-09T23:14:10","slug":"how-do-i-search-for-a-task-in-task-scheduler-use-autoruns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/montgomeryminds.com\/blog\/how-do-i-search-for-a-task-in-task-scheduler-use-autoruns\/","title":{"rendered":"How do I search for a task in task scheduler (use autoruns)"},"content":{"rendered":"<style type=\"text\/css\" media=\"all\">@import url(https:\/\/montgomeryminds.com\/css\/wp_blog_fixes.css);<\/style>\n<style>\n.task_sched_title {\nfont-size: 150%;\nbackground-color: #202029;\npadding: 0.3em;\nborder-radius: 0.25em;\nborder: solid .15em #282830;\n}\n\/* for specificity *\/\nh1.task_sched_title {\nmargin-top: 2em;\n}\n<\/style>\n<h1 class=\"task_sched_title\">Background on Windows Task Scheduler<\/h1>\n<p>If you&#8217;re already familiar with task scheduler skip to <a href=\"#task_sched_ans\">the answer<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Windows (7, 8*) has many tasks that are scheduled to run at various times. Programs you install often create new tasks of their own to run at various times. These tasks can be set up to run at various times of day, or on various triggers, like system start, or user logon, or the start of a program (most likely a related program to run in a coordinated fashion).<\/p>\n<p>You start task scheduler by <\/p>\n<dl>\n<dt>Windows 7:<\/dt>\n<dd>clicking on the start orb (or hitting Ctrl-ESC) and typing &#8220;task&#8221; in the search box and clicking on &#8220;Task Scheduler&#8221;\n<\/dd>\n<dt>Windows 8*:<\/dt>\n<dd>Going to the tile screen (or hitting Ctrl-ESC) and just typing &#8220;task&#8221;.  It&#8217;s in the &#8220;Settings&#8221; group; click on &#8220;Task Scheduler&#8221;.\n<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<p><a name=\"task_sched_ans\"><\/a><\/p>\n<h1  class=\"task_sched_title\">How to search&#8211;You Can&#8217;t&#8211;Use <code>autoruns<\/code><\/h1>\n<p>The short answer is that Windows Task Scheduler PROVIDES NO WAY TO SEARCH.<br \/>\nBut, fortunately, another program Sysinternals autoruns, does.<\/p>\n<p>Download autoruns here: <a href=\"https:\/\/technet.microsoft.com\/en-us\/sysinternals\/bb963902.aspx\" title=\"microsoft sysinternals autoruns - https:\/\/technet.microsoft.com\/en-us\/sysinternals\/bb963902.aspx\">https:\/\/technet.microsoft.com\/en-us\/sysinternals\/bb963902.aspx<\/a><\/p>\n<p>(it&#8217;s a <code>.zip<\/code> file so after downloading you&#8217;ll have to double-click it to open the <code>.zip<\/code> file and extract all the files in it to a folder that you&#8217;ll remember.)<\/p>\n<p>Then double click on <code>autoruns.exe<\/code> to start it.  (not the file with the &#8216;c&#8217; in it&#8217;s name&#8211;that one runs the console-only application.  That is, unless you like the command line style.)<\/p>\n<p>Click the &#8220;Scheduled Tasks&#8221; tab to show ownly scheduled tasks.<\/p>\n<p>Click File -> Find (or type Ctrl-F) and search for your task.<\/p>\n<p>Once you find it, you can see the hierarchy in the first column of where it&#8217;s stored in regular task scheduler.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Background on Windows Task Scheduler If you&#8217;re already familiar with task scheduler skip to the answer Windows (7, 8*) has many tasks that are scheduled to run at various times. Programs you install often create new tasks of their own &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/montgomeryminds.com\/blog\/how-do-i-search-for-a-task-in-task-scheduler-use-autoruns\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/montgomeryminds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1150"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/montgomeryminds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/montgomeryminds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montgomeryminds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montgomeryminds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1150"}],"version-history":[{"count":29,"href":"https:\/\/montgomeryminds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1150\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1179,"href":"https:\/\/montgomeryminds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1150\/revisions\/1179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/montgomeryminds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montgomeryminds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montgomeryminds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}