How to turn off scheduled tasks which I can't locate?

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The task has a weird GUID name which I can't seem to find anywhere. It triggers a shutdown for my PC every hour or so. I'm pretty sure it is this task. How do I find this in task scheduler and disable it?

SKLAK

Posted 2017-05-30T05:07:03.103

Reputation: 111

Find the command executed in Task Scheduler Management Console. Or you may search registry to find that GUID. – Biswapriyo – 2017-05-30T07:11:46.050

What do you mean find the command executed in task scheduler? How do i do that? – SKLAK – 2017-05-30T09:13:42.557

Answers

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How do I find this in task scheduler and disable it?

  1. Open an administrator cmd shell.

  2. Run the following command to list all of the scheduled tasks with GUID names:

    schtasks /query | findstr "{"

    Example output:

    > schtasks /query | findstr "{"
User_Feed_Synchronization-{0CB0E1B4-5524 31/05/2017 11:25:51    Running
User_Feed_Synchronization-{F2ABD734-5170 30/05/2017 19:50:03    Ready
{3C42F888-EE53-4541-A59C-8198AA251687}   N/A                    Ready
{4A4CA98E-7F38-4290-9DFD-AA3AE17481F5}   N/A                    Ready
{AA3255CA-EDE4-4B11-855E-A4A9A6FDE89D}   N/A                    Ready
{C56B633B-E9D2-4155-987A-7FE8A962906F}   N/A                    Ready
COMODO Autostart {D5EFF3B3-E126-4AF6-BCE N/A                    Running
COMODO CMC {06A09C0F-DD9C-4191-A670-7111 31/05/2017 0:00:00     Ready
COMODO Signature Update {B9D5C6F9-17D2-4 Disabled
COMODO Update {A6D52E4F-569B-4756-B3D8-D Disabled

  3. Run the following command to delete the appropriate task:

    schtasks /delete /tn "{GUID}" /f

    Where:

    • {GUID} is the name of the task to delete.

    • /f - Force delete, ignore warnings even if the task is currently runnning.

    Example:

    schtasks /delete /tn "{3C42F888-EE53-4541-A59C-8198AA251687}" /f

Further Reading

DavidPostill

Posted 2017-05-30T05:07:03.103

Reputation: 118 938

This doesn't display all tasks – SKLAK – 2017-05-30T20:49:10.300

@SKLAK It displays all tasks with GUID names. To display all tasks use just schtasks /query – DavidPostill – 2017-05-30T20:51:13.753

No it does not display all tasks with GUID names. I see guid named tasks in task scheduler, while this command only displays one GUID task name. – SKLAK – 2017-05-30T20:56:12.897

@SKLAK Are you running as an Administrator? – DavidPostill – 2017-05-30T20:57:21.553

Yes, running cmd as admin – SKLAK – 2017-05-30T20:59:34.667

@SKLAK I've no idea why it is not working for you. Working fine here. Can you provide some screenshots? – DavidPostill – 2017-05-30T21:00:32.203

http://i.imgur.com/1fpYLCm.png – SKLAK – 2017-05-30T21:10:14.317

@SKLAK Can you please try the following command? schtasks /query /v /fo list | findstr "{" – DavidPostill – 2017-05-30T21:29:00.140

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