Trying to disable a task in the Task Scheduler, with UAC off and logged in with an account that's in the Administrators group, I see the message:
"Task Scheduler: The user account you are operating under does not have permission to disable this task."
A look in the registry reveals that the data appears to be encrypted, stored in an SD ("Secure Data"?) value.
Is there a reasonable way around this? I could just SCHTASKS /DELETE the entry, but that leaves no record that it was disabled and may make it easier for the system to restore it in the future.
I can successfully disable the task with a SCHTASKS /DISABLE command via psexec -i -s to execute the command as SYSTEM, but I would rather find a way to use a normal privileged account to do everything.
Is there any hope to do this as a plain ol' Administrators group member? Or is this just another way that Microsoft is slowly grabbing control away from the owner of the computer?
-Noel
Author of the "How to Configure the 'To Work' Options" series of Windows books. Not feeling enough love to do one for Windows 10.
Post by Locutus deBorg on Sept 15, 2016 12:56:47 GMT -6
They've been removing access rights from the administrators since vista most times certain configuration changes Must be done with The Administrator user account
in XP and older an administrator user was no different than "The Administrator" user account then came vista, win 7, win ape / ape dot one, and now tentanic
One of the first things I do on a fresh install, or during OOBE of a pre-installed system is enable the "Administrator" user account set a pw and then switch to that user for the entirety of the system configuration
if you have The Administrator user enabled (default disabled since vista) log in with that and check if the access denied issues are the same
if it is then you might as well resort to the /Delete then see if you can create a new bogus entry of the same task name that does nothing and set it to default disabled
kinda like the olden days of blocking software registration prompts replacing the registration.exe file(s) with blank / empty registration.txt file(s) after renaming the .exe to .e_e and the .txt file to .exe resulting in nothing happening when the program calls the registration.exe file it gets the blank / empty file
I find the lack of configuration options disturbing !
I felt a great disturbance in the force.. as if millions of win 7 systems suddenly cried out in terror.
<Rick> Good video. It's almost hard to believe that at one time Windows 98 was the resource hog, but even then, it still ran circles around what Windows 10 can do on today's modern hardware and look a heck of alot better doing it.
May 25, 2021 22:55:12 GMT -6
<Rick> As stated elsewhere, So much for the launch of Windows 11, "The Great Crash." Myself, I had a hard time getting into the site listed above, when I did get in, the video was partly done and then it crashed. There has been many other reports of crashing.
Jun 24, 2021 9:52:33 GMT -6
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<Rick> I see Microsoft has been very quick to pull down reports of site crashing regarding the Launch of Windows 11 on the Microsoft Insiders forum.
Jun 24, 2021 9:57:31 GMT -6
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<Rick> The rebroadcast is working okay.
Jun 24, 2021 11:00:25 GMT -6
<Rick> With reports of people being able to install the dev-edition of Windows 11 on machines not meeting spec, I thought I would give it a what-the-heck try. Lucky me, I'm caught in the downloading, doesn't meet spec, clearing, re-downloading loop on my machine!
Jul 2, 2021 7:08:46 GMT -6
<Rick> I've recently purchased a license for ArcaOS from www.arcanoae.com/ to play with. First impressions, it's still OS/2, but it now has a Linux twist to it.
Jul 2, 2021 7:32:53 GMT -6
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<dozrguy> laptop shit out and am stuck buying a new one. os win11 as fucked as win10 was?
Oct 2, 2021 12:56:10 GMT -6
<Rick> Let's see ..., my impression of Windows 11 is that it is a spruced up version of Windows 10 requiring a 64-bit processor plus a piece of security hardware that is less than 4 years old in order for it to run.
Oct 4, 2021 18:25:49 GMT -6
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<Rick> On the plus side, Microsoft is supposed to be supporting Windows 10 for some time to come for those of us still using systems with I7 or older processors.
Oct 4, 2021 18:44:35 GMT -6
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<dozrguy> i tried installing win10 om the 'shitout' pc this morning usung media creation. EPIC FAIL! went into an endless bootloop. win7 reinstalled just fine
Oct 21, 2021 11:23:38 GMT -6
<dozrguy> STILL so much bullshit and so little time for the kiddie ideas from the hill. My new laptop (MSI GE 11-UH461) would be an awesome "10" machine but because of Winblows I can only give it a "2"......wasted $3500
Oct 27, 2021 9:36:47 GMT -6
<Rick> Hello. Just checking in.
Mar 17, 2022 10:46:54 GMT -6
<isidroco> Each new w10 update adds >100000 useless files to \Windows\Servicing\LCU\Package_for_RollupFix... folders. Even in a SSD takes time to delete that stuff. In each version they manage to worsen stuff.
Mar 27, 2022 16:14:51 GMT -6
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<dozerguy> still traffic here?
Oct 9, 2022 17:32:44 GMT -6
<Rick> No, there does not seem to be very much traffic these days. I still check in from time to time.
Oct 9, 2022 20:08:58 GMT -6