1. Welcome Guest! In order to create a new topic or reply to an existing one, you must register first. It is easy and free. Click here to sign up now!.
    Dismiss Notice

viewing the progress of a task initiated via Task Scheduler

Discussion in 'Windows Vista' started by yawnmoth, Oct 3, 2009.

  1. yawnmoth

    yawnmoth Guest

    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?
     
  2. On Sat, 3 Oct 2009 20:22:34 -0700 (PDT), yawnmoth wrote:
    <!--coloro:blue--><span style="color:blue <!--/coloro-->
    > 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.

    --
    Gene E. Bloch letters0x40blochg0x2Ecom
     

Share This Page