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Windows 7 scheduled task returns 0x2
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Mar 15, 202636001 viewsConfidence Score0%
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I have identical scheduled tasks running in Windows XP Pro and Windows 7. The XP Pro one runs fine, the Windows 7 one always returns 0x2 (which means, "The system cannot find the file specified"; however, executing from the command line is no problem) in the Last Run Result column of the Task Sched…
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Fix for: Windows 7 scheduled task returns 0x2
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I had this issue as well. 0x2 from task scheduler seemed to say it couldn't find the batch file. This was false - I added some pipe arrows (>>) to output my batch file to a logfile, then ran the scheduled task. Despite getting a 0x2 in Task Schedule…
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