The XML file containing the task already contains the user name but that won’t cause schtasks to prompt for a password. Delete the lines starting from through and including the line containing . Save the file. To schedule a task that runs with permissions of a different user, use the /ru parameter. For more details about the schtasks and schtasks /Create commands, see: Schtasks.exe (Windows) 1. With this XML encoding of the task, you can see the WakeToRun node can be set for waking the computer from sleep to run the task: few trials and solved the problem; the key is using "\" in the name. To import a task XML … at a command prompt. Select the XML file and click "Open", then review the parameters in the "Create Task" window that opens, and click "OK". schtasks /query /xml /tn "Task Name" > c:\path\task.xml. Now, it's time to see how you can re-import that XML file to re-create the scheduled task. Scheduled tasks are kept in the C:\Windows\System32\Tasks directory and are xml files that contain the job information. (see screenshot below step 3) schtasks /Create /XML "full path of .xml file" /TN "task folder location\task name" /RU "Computer name\User name" /RP * Correct the task name and the file path as you need. To view more schtasks /create examples, type schtasks /create /? Here’s an example command line: Here’s an example command line: schtasks /create /xml update-hosts.xml /tn "update-hosts" /ru TINTIN\rakhesh /rp Password1 Before you can use this tip, you need an XML definition for a task. Restore a scheduled task in Windows 10 using PowerShell. Open a new elevated PowerShell instance. In a previous tip, we showed how you can export a scheduled task to an XML file. notepad c:\path\task.xml. Step 1 – How To Create a Scheduled Task Are you creating a new task via the schtasks.exe command line, or updating an existing task? Sample schtask.exe command line, schtasks /create /xml "MyTask.xml" /tn "My Task Folder\My New Task". To register a task that is defined in XML, you can use either the ITaskFolder::RegisterTask function (TaskFolder.RegisterTask for scripting) or the Schtasks.exe command-line tool. If you need to do this programmatically, you can use schtasks.exe. this creates a folder "My Task Folder" and creates a new task "My New Task" – G33kKahuna Mar 22 '12 at 18:24 To delete the Triggers and make other alterations: Open the XML file in a text editor that understands UTF-16. Type the command below into the command prompt, and press Enter. Now we are ready to dig in and start managing our tasks from the command line. 2. schtasks /create /tn "Aero Glass" /xml "c:\winaero\aero glass.xml" This will restore the task named "Aero Glass" from the c:\winaero\aero glass.xml file. Check out the Export-ScheduledTask function in our previous tip to create … In this guide, we show you the steps to export and import scheduled tasks to the same or different computer running Windows 10, using Task Scheduler, Command Prompt, and PowerShell. Import a scheduled Task (XML) Archived Forums > Windows PowerShell. Open an elevated command prompt. On Vista, schtasks.exe has an /xml option for both /create and /query. Microsoft has provided a way to do this with the schtasks command. If you use the Schtasks.exe tool (located in the C:\Windows\System32 directory), then you can use the following command to register the task: schtasks /create /XML /tn. 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