Vineet Garg said:

Greets,

Thanks for the trick & information!

Just to mention what came helpful to me when I wanted to keep a close watch. I got the output as a text file using the Powershell Command :

Code:

Get-ScheduledTask | ? {$_.Settings.MaintenanceSettings} | Out-file -FilePath F:\MaintenanceTask.txt

& I got the file MaintenanceTask.txt created in the root of F: partition.

Thanks. ...

Thank you. I now added an output to .txt file option command to the tutorial.

Vineet Garg said:

Greets,



Thanks. ...

I suggest that a csv output is much, much easier to work with.
I also suggest that the code could usefully be adjusted to be able to cope with a relocated Desktop folder path.

Le voila -

ListAutoMaintenanceTasks.ps1

Code:

$UserDesktop = (Get-ItemProperty -Path "HKCU:\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\User Shell Folders" -Name "Desktop").Desktop
Get-ScheduledTask |
     ? {$_.Settings.MaintenanceSettings} |
         Export-CSV -Path "$UserDesktop\ListAutoMaintenanceTasks.csv" -NoTypeInformation

- This code creates a ListAutoMaintenanceTasks.csv on the user Desktop that can be opened in, for example, Excel with everything arranged neatly in separate fields-columns.
- The code can cope with a user Desktop folder that has been relocated
- The code can cope with spaces and ampersands in the username [just in case Tom & Jerry share a computer]

---

This version is a bit neater in that it controls which properties are listed

ListAutoMaintenanceTasks-SelectiveOutput.ps1

Code:

$UserDesktop = (Get-ItemProperty -Path "HKCU:\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\User Shell Folders" -Name "Desktop").Desktop
Get-ScheduledTask |
     ? {$_.Settings.MaintenanceSettings} |
### These property selections are optional and can be changed to suit needs.  Run this without the Select-Object line to see the full range of properties that can be included
        Select-Object "TaskPath", "TaskName", "State" |
         Export-CSV -Path "$UserDesktop\ListAutoMaintenanceTasks.csv" -NoTypeInformation

All the best,
Denis

Homer712 said:

This may be one of those "Too much information . . . " things. I tried one of the PowerShell cmds posted by Try3, and ended up wondering why some maintenance items marked as "Critical" were also marked "disabled." This may be one of those cruel MS ploys (Event Viewer comes to mind) that will keep users (OK, not all users, just us special, stay up at night tinkering, worrying type users) wondering if their systems are up to date.

The .Net on your pic caught my eye. We're up to .Net 4.8 now I believe. Notice,the "critical" is part of the description, not a separate column. It may be disabled because .Net 4.0 does not exist on this user machine. Unfortunately, it's still going to "read" critical" because of a poor decision on MS's part to using that wording.

Code:

TaskPath                                                    TaskName                                      State   
--------                                                    --------                                      -----   
\Microsoft\Windows\.NET Framework\                          .NET Framework NGEN v4.0.30319                Ready   
\Microsoft\Windows\.NET Framework\                          .NET Framework NGEN v4.0.30319 64             Ready   
\Microsoft\Windows\.NET Framework\                          .NET Framework NGEN v4.0.30319 64 Critical    Disabled
\Microsoft\Windows\.NET Framework\                          .NET Framework NGEN v4.0.30319 Critical       Disabled
\Microsoft\Windows\Application Experience\                  ProgramDataUpdater                            Ready   
\Microsoft\Windows\Application Experience\                  StartupAppTask                                Ready   
\Microsoft\Windows\ApplicationData\                         appuriverifierdaily                           Ready   
\Microsoft\Windows\ApplicationData\                         CleanupTemporaryState                         Ready   
\Microsoft\Windows\ApplicationData\                         DsSvcCleanup                                  Ready   
\Microsoft\Windows\AppxDeploymentClient\                    Pre-staged app cleanup                        Disabled
\Microsoft\Windows\BrokerInfrastructure\                    BgTaskRegistrationMaintenanceTask             Ready   
\Microsoft\Windows\Chkdsk\                                  ProactiveScan                                 Ready   
\Microsoft\Windows\Customer Experience Improvement Program\ UsbCeip                                       Ready   
\Microsoft\Windows\Defrag\                                  ScheduledDefrag                               Disabled
\Microsoft\Windows\Device Setup\                            Metadata Refresh                              Ready   
\Microsoft\Windows\Diagnosis\                               Scheduled                                     Ready   
\Microsoft\Windows\DiskCleanup\                             SilentCleanup                                 Ready   
\Microsoft\Windows\DiskDiagnostic\                          Microsoft-Windows-DiskDiagnosticDataCollector Ready   
\Microsoft\Windows\DiskFootprint\                           Diagnostics                                   Ready   
\Microsoft\Windows\DiskFootprint\                           StorageSense                                  Ready   
\Microsoft\Windows\Feedback\Siuf\                           DmClient                                      Ready   
\Microsoft\Windows\FileHistory\                             File History (maintenance mode)               Ready   
\Microsoft\Windows\Flighting\FeatureConfig\                 UsageDataReporting                            Ready   
\Microsoft\Windows\HelloFace\                               FODCleanupTask                                Ready   
\Microsoft\Windows\InstallService\                          ScanForUpdatesAsUser                          Ready   
\Microsoft\Windows\LanguageComponentsInstaller\             Uninstallation                                Disabled
\Microsoft\Windows\License Manager\                         TempSignedLicenseExchange                     Ready   
\Microsoft\Windows\Maintenance\                             WinSAT                                        Ready   
\Microsoft\Windows\MemoryDiagnostic\                        RunFullMemoryDiagnostic                       Ready   
\Microsoft\Windows\MUI\                                     LPRemove                                      Ready   
\Microsoft\Windows\PI\                                      Sqm-Tasks                                     Ready   
\Microsoft\Windows\Power Efficiency Diagnostics\            AnalyzeSystem                                 Ready   
\Microsoft\Windows\RecoveryEnvironment\                     VerifyWinRE                                   Disabled
\Microsoft\Windows\Registry\                                RegIdleBackup                                 Ready   
\Microsoft\Windows\Servicing\                               StartComponentCleanup                         Ready   
\Microsoft\Windows\SettingSync\                             BackgroundUploadTask                          Ready   
\Microsoft\Windows\SharedPC\                                Account Cleanup                               Disabled
\Microsoft\Windows\Shell\                                   IndexerAutomaticMaintenance                   Ready   
\Microsoft\Windows\StateRepository\                         MaintenanceTasks                              Ready   
\Microsoft\Windows\Sysmain\                                 HybridDriveCachePrepopulate                   Disabled
\Microsoft\Windows\Sysmain\                                 HybridDriveCacheRebalance                     Disabled
\Microsoft\Windows\Sysmain\                                 ResPriStaticDbSync                            Ready   
\Microsoft\Windows\Sysmain\                                 WsSwapAssessmentTask                          Ready   
\Microsoft\Windows\SystemRestore\                           SR                                            Ready   
\Microsoft\Windows\Time Synchronization\                    SynchronizeTime                               Ready   
\Microsoft\Windows\Time Zone\                               SynchronizeTimeZone                           Ready   
\Microsoft\Windows\UpdateOrchestrator\                      Maintenance Install                           Disabled
\Microsoft\Windows\UpdateOrchestrator\                      Report policies                               Ready   
\Microsoft\Windows\Windows Defender\                        Windows Defender Cache Maintenance            Ready   
\Microsoft\Windows\Windows Defender\                        Windows Defender Cleanup                      Ready   
\Microsoft\Windows\Windows Defender\                        Windows Defender Scheduled Scan               Ready   
\Microsoft\Windows\Windows Defender\                        Windows Defender Verification                 Ready   
\Microsoft\Windows\WOF\                                     WIM-Hash-Validation                           Ready

Homer712 said:

Seems to be???

You mean the 4.0? Yeah I see it. I was really only trying to explain away the "Critical" wording in the description.