PsShutdown in Task Scheduler of Windows 7

Question

I try to use PsShutdown to schedule late sleep, restart and etc on Windows 7 machine.

In order to run the command manually I have to open the command window as Administrator first. So how can I do it in Task Scheduler?

Answer 1

How do I run command as Administrator in the Task Scheduler?

In the "Create Task" > "General" dialog you have the option to select the user account used to run the task ("Change User or Group").

You may also want to enable "Run with highest privileges".

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Creating a Task with the Details View

Once you already know what you are doing, there’s no reason to go through a wizard to create a new task (unless you really like them). Instead, you can just create a new task and fill out the sections with the settings that you want – and naturally, there are more settings available this way.

User account allows you to specify which user this task is going to run as. If you want the task to interact with the desktop, you’re going to probably want to use your own user account, which is the default. If you specify the SYSTEM account, you won’t want to save a password.

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Run with highest privileges – this option essentially gives the task administrator privileges the same way the User Account Control (UAC) prompt would do it. If you plan to use this for administrative purposes, you will probably want to enable this option.

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