Why is changing to Schtasks onstart in place of onlogon not working

budi · 23 Jan 2018

Why is changing to Schtasks onstart in place of onlogon not working. The schtasks is copying some folders and files from D:\APP to Z:\
(tcc.exe just a better duplicate of cmd.exe and put in z: drive) :

Code:

schtasks /create /sc onlogon /tn Desktop/tr "cmd /c cd/d D:\APP&copy/y TCC z:&tcc/c 'copy/u/s TCC z:\&copy/s/y Notepp z:\Notepp&copy/md/y RegWorks z:\RegWorks\&c:\windows\ explorer d:'"/f

I'm sure others will not work too.. Thanks in advance

Barman58 · 24 Jan 2018

Not done any scheduled task management for "a While", so cannot help with specifics but for this scenario I would suspect that either some process or resource that is needed is not there until a user is logged on.

Is Z: a network drive? is it mapped by a specific user?

Another could be permissions based where the permissions are heavily "tied down" but assuming that Scheduled tasks onStart runs with System credentials should not be a problem, unless Z: is remote and System is not given any permissions

budi · 24 Jan 2018

Z: just a RAM disk
I get it , i already suspected too the phase is to earlier to perform FS operation eg. copying..