Possibly to disable a W10 Scheduled task using Registry edit or group policy?

_{Thursday, July 18, 2019 3:15 PM}

Is it possible to disable a W10 Scheduled task using Registry edit or group policy?

I want to be able to do this remotely to a few machines, so opening a console and righ-clicking and selecting "disable" is not an option. thanks.

I'd prefer to disable rather than delete, so the task could be re-enabled when required.

_{Thursday, July 18, 2019 3:38 PM | 1 vote}

I don't think you can do it with registry or GPO. The schtasks command line tool might do what you want though:

schtasks /change /tn "Name of task" /disable

_{Friday, July 19, 2019 6:04 AM | 1 vote}

Hi,

You could try to disable it by powershell:

Disable-ScheduledTask -TaskName "taskname"

Best regards,

Yilia

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_{Friday, July 19, 2019 2:36 PM}

Thanks. I was thinking i’d Have to use a command, batch or powershell.

_{Monday, July 22, 2019 7:58 AM}

Hi,

Thanks for your reply.

If you have any problems or concerns, please feel free to post here.

Best regards,

Yilia

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