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	"plain_text": "How to find the location of the Scheduled Tasks folder\r\nBy JoelFan 38.9k3838 gold badges143143 silver badges218218 bronze badges\r\nPublished: 2010-05-26 · Archived: 2026-04-05 19:27:27 UTC\r\nI have seen references online that state that 'Scheduled Tasks' in Windows are stored in %SystemRoot%\\Tasks ,\r\nwhich I think usually equates to C:\\Windows\\Tasks .\r\nHowever, I observe that while that folder exists on my Windows 7 system, Scheduled tasks doesn't use it.\r\nMy system appears to use, C:\\Windows\\System32\\Tasks .\r\nI have studied the Environment variables and there doesn't seem to be anything related to Scheduled Tasks\r\nthere.\r\nHow do I discover which folder is used for Scheduled tasks?\r\nWonderWorker\r\n9,2326 gold badges71 silver badges75 bronze badges\r\nasked May 26, 2010 at 14:23\r\n3\r\nTasks are saved in filesystem AND registry\r\nTasks are stored in 3 locations: 1 file system location and 2 registry locations.\r\nFile system:\r\nC:\\Windows\\System32\\Tasks\r\nRegistry:\r\nHKLM\\Software\\Microsoft\\Windows NT\\CurrentVersion\\Schedule\\Taskcache\\Tasks\r\nHKLM\\Software\\Microsoft\\Windows NT\\CurrentVersion\\Schedule\\Taskcache\\Tree\r\nhttps://stackoverflow.com/questions/2913816/how-to-find-the-location-of-the-scheduled-tasks-folder\r\nPage 1 of 5\n\nSo, you need to delete a corrupted task in these 3 locations.\r\nanswered Oct 7, 2015 at 10:13\r\nJan\r\n8296 silver badges2 bronze badges\r\n3 Comments\r\nThe registry Taskcache really helped me, thanks! I had a backup of the whole registry of my old Windows install,\r\nwhile the tasks themselves were already gone (with the Windows).\r\n2016-10-01T22:57:07.82Z+00:00\r\nThanks alot, this solved my problem. Surprisingly many google links do show non working solutions not\r\nmentioning the hidden folder in the file system\r\n2018-09-19T15:57:33.157Z+00:00\r\nThere are also tasks in %SystemRoot%\\Tasks ( C:\\Windows\\Tasks ), which under certain conditions don't show up\r\nin the Task Scheduler snap-in.\r\n2019-01-06T01:49:32.48Z+00:00\r\nhttps://stackoverflow.com/questions/2913816/how-to-find-the-location-of-the-scheduled-tasks-folder\r\nPage 2 of 5\n\nI want to extend @Jan answer:\r\nIt's seems, that Task Scheduler 1.0 API uses C:\\Windows\\Tasks folder for create and enumerate tasks (this\r\nexample), while Task Scheduler 2.0 API uses C:\\Windows\\System32\\Tasks to create and enumerate tasks (this\r\nexample).\r\nIt's also seems, that windows console utility schtasks and GUI utility taskschd.msc uses Task Scheduler 2.0\r\nAPI .\r\nP.S. I found, that if task placed in C:\\Windows\\Tasks and have not set AccountInformation , then task won't be\r\ndisplayed in windows console and GUI schedulers. If you set AccountInformation (even \"\" for SYSTEM\r\naccount) and set flag TASK_FLAG_RUN_ONLY_IF_LOGGED_ON - task will be displayed in all standard applications.\r\nSolution found here\r\nbhristov\r\n3,2072 gold badges14 silver badges26 bronze badges\r\nanswered Mar 28, 2018 at 8:03\r\nmurzagurskiy\r\n1,3431 gold badge21 silver badges51 bronze badges\r\nComments\r\nFor Windows 7 and up, scheduled tasks are not run by cmd.exe , but rather by MMC (Microsoft Management\r\nConsole). %SystemRoot%\\Tasks should work on any other Windows version though.\r\nDrew Chapin\r\n8,0397 gold badges63 silver badges86 bronze badges\r\nanswered Jan 22, 2012 at 4:42\r\nComments\r\nhttps://stackoverflow.com/questions/2913816/how-to-find-the-location-of-the-scheduled-tasks-folder\r\nPage 3 of 5\n\nLooks like TaskCache registry data is in ...\r\nHKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SOFTWARE\\Microsoft\\Windows NT\\CurrentVersion\\Schedule\\TaskCache\r\n... on my Windows 10 PC (i.e. add Schedule before TaskCache and TaskCache has an upper case C).\r\nanswered Jan 10, 2016 at 8:13\r\nComments\r\nThere are multiple issues with the MMC however as on almost every PC in my business the ask scheduler API\r\nwill not open and has somehow been corrupted. So you cannot edit, delete or otherwise modify tasks that were\r\ndeveloped before the API decided not to run anymore. The only way we have found to fix that issue is to totally\r\nwipe away a persons profile under the C:\\Users\\ area and force the system to recreate the log in once the person\r\nlogs back in. This seems to fix the API issue and it works again, however the tasks are often not visible anymore\r\nto that user since the tasks developed are specific to the user and not the machine in Windows 7. The other odd\r\nthing is that sometimes, although not with any frequency that can be analyzed, the tasks still run even though the\r\nAPI is corrupted and will not open. The cause of this issue is apparently not known but there are many \"fixes\"\r\ndescribed on various websites, but the user profile deletion and adding anew seems to work every time for at least\r\na little while. The tasks are saved as XML now in WIN 7, so if you do find them in the system32/tasks folder you\r\ncan delete them, or copy them to a new drive and then import them back into task scheduler. We went with the\r\nsystem scheduler software from Splinterware though since we had the same corruption issue multiple times even\r\nwith the fix that does not seem to be permanent.\r\nanswered Oct 17, 2013 at 21:43\r\nComments\r\nOn newer versions of Windows (Windows 10 and Windows Server 2016) the tasks you create are located in\r\nC:\\Windows\\Tasks . They will have the extension .job\r\nFor example if you create the task \"DoWork\" it will create the task in\r\nC:\\Windows\\Tasks\\DoWork.job\r\nanswered Oct 18, 2016 at 2:02\r\nTechnoTim\r\nhttps://stackoverflow.com/questions/2913816/how-to-find-the-location-of-the-scheduled-tasks-folder\r\nPage 4 of 5\n\n3,1951 gold badge26 silver badges28 bronze badges\r\n2 Comments\r\nIn my Windows Server 2016 instance tasks are located in `C:\\Windows\\System32\\Tasks` and they are XML files\r\nwith no extension.\r\n2019-02-07T03:10:38.56Z+00:00\r\nin Windows 11 22H2 they are also still saved in C:\\Windows\\System32\\Tasks\r\n2023-01-07T19:07:04.967Z+00:00\r\nStart asking to get answers\r\nFind the answer to your question by asking.\r\nAsk question\r\nExplore related questions\r\nSee similar questions with these tags.\r\nSource: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2913816/how-to-find-the-location-of-the-scheduled-tasks-folder\r\nhttps://stackoverflow.com/questions/2913816/how-to-find-the-location-of-the-scheduled-tasks-folder\r\nPage 5 of 5",
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