viewing the progress of a task initiated via Task Scheduler

I set up Task Scheduler to, once a month, run robocopy to sync two
drives. To do this, I created a *.cmd file and had it run that. Two
days later, the Last Run Result is "The task is currently running.
(0x41301)". My question is... how can I view the current progress of
robocopy? In Windows XP, a command prompt would pop up when a
scheduled task like this was initiated and you could just look at
that. In Windows Vista, nothing pops up, so I can't check the status
as I could have in Windows XP.

Any ideas?

 

On Sat, 3 Oct 2009 20:22:34 -0700 (PDT), yawnmoth wrote:
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> I set up Task Scheduler to, once a month, run robocopy to sync two
> drives. To do this, I created a *.cmd file and had it run that. Two
> days later, the Last Run Result is "The task is currently running.
> (0x41301)". My question is... how can I view the current progress of
> robocopy? In Windows XP, a command prompt would pop up when a
> scheduled task like this was initiated and you could just look at
> that. In Windows Vista, nothing pops up, so I can't check the status
> as I could have in Windows XP.
>
> Any ideas?<!--colorc--><!--/colorc-->

Here's an idea (not knowledge).

Can you set the task to run with a normal window, not a background window?

I imagine this either as a setting on the cmd file or in the scheduler
settings for the task.

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