Task Scheduler not saving newly created task - permissions error

Question

_{Friday, September 29, 2017 12:32 PM}

Hi All,

We have around 30 "public use" PCs running Win 10 here at our library, and for statistical purposes, I'm trying to create a task that will log the current user off after 30 minutes of inactivity so that our asset management software can pick up on how many people use any given computer on any given day.

I found an example of a decent solution online, but when I follow the steps to create the task, then get to the end, I get the "you don't have permission to do that!" wrist slap. There are both administrator and standard user accounts on the machine.

When I create the task logged in as the admin account, the task saves fine. Problem is, when I log back in as the standard user (the default login for these machines), the task does not appear in the list of tasks. When I create the task while logged in as the standard user, I get the error, even if I select the admin account as the "author".

How do I get around this?

thx,

Steve

All replies (1)

_{Saturday, September 30, 2017 7:15 PM}

This would be caused by the user account not having file access  read \ execute permissions on the file that the created task is. This would be in C:\Windows\System32\Tasks> (this post about it)

So give the user account read and execute to the file that is the task and should be good. Windows 10 makes doing that a bit harder as by default no access to the Tasks folders (Admin command prompt does have access can then icacls to added permissions)