Do you notice that Task Scheduler in Windows Server 2008 is greyed out and your can’t perform any action of START, STOP, RESTART ?
Found a workaround from TechNet.
To STOP Services
1. Go to Registry HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Schedule
2. Find the DWORD called START, change its value from 2 to 4."
3. Reboot OS
To START Services
1. Go to Registry
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Schedule
2. Find the DWORD called START, change its value from 4 to 2."
3. Reboot OS
Reference for the value of REG_DWORD.
| 1 | Automatic (Delayed Start) |
| 2 | Automatic |
| 3 | Manual |
| 4 | Disabled |
Hope this can help you :-)
Thank you so much for this!
ReplyDeleteA HUGE thankyou for this! my media centre in windows 7 would not record t.v at all, be it scheduled or manually. Now it works perfectly! thanks again!!
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ReplyDeleteAm having the same problem with Window Server 2012. I changed the DWORD key as instructed but when I restart and check the key it returns back to 4 and am still not able to get it to not grayed-out. Please help!
ReplyDeleteyou may also disable (or change) the startup process on the SCHEDULE service with the following:
ReplyDeletePSEXEC -i -s CMD
(this opens a CMD prompt with the "NT Authority\SYSTEM" account)
SC CONFIG SCHEDULE start= demand (changes start to MANUAL)
SC CONFIG SCHEDULE start= disable (changes start to DISABLED)
SC CONFIG SCHEDULE start= auto (changes start to Automatic)
in any case, once you have this SYSTEM CMD prompt, you do NOT need to change the startup mode for the SCHEDULE service, but rather simply STOP the service as follows:
SC STOP SCHEDULE
or NET STOP SCHEDULE
Hope this helps.... :-)
The fact that PSEXEC -i -s CMD runs under SYSTEM lets me do so many other things that up until now I could never figure out how to do even as Administrator. Thanks !!!
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