Windows Task Scheduler and RUN versus EDIT -- an actual solution.

[agora]

1. Compile your script, and
2. Point Task Manager to the .exe rather than to the script.
That's it.
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Thank you to the developers of this superb software. I would like to offer some constructive criticism of my experience in trying to find a solution (on these forums) to a common problem.

I am a completely new user.

I reviewed the documentation, plus dozens of posts on the forums here in an attempt to find a solution to this issue. The information is variously incomplete or irrelevant. I also found it distracting and useless for users to rebuke others for the ways in which they're applying the software. I didn't personally experience it, but the snark was noticeable and unfriendly. 

The problem I had was trying to get Task Scheduler to simply run a script rather than open it for editing. No matter the registry changes I made, no matter the flags set in SciteCONFIG, no matter the option configuration, I could NOT get this to work. Nothing would work. I'm sure this was me and not the software, but *finding* the solution was also not working.

It took exactly ONE lookup on stackoverflow to find a complete, simple, effective solution:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/44317006/task-scheduler-loads-script-into-editor-instead-of-running-it

Please, if you're submitting a solution, aim for completeness and clarity and reply to users without the assumption that they know what passing a name is.



 

[careca]

I think the issue may be the command you gave, i never tried working with task manager task scheduler that way, but i assume you could in theory, call the script the same way the context menu "Run" does. Call the exe and the script. Can you specify a command in task manager task scheduler? Im sorry, like i said, never used it.

When i run this, i can run a script

"C:\Program Files (x86)\AutoIt3\AutoIt3.exe" C:\Users\W10\Desktop\AutoIt\test.au3

Edited December 7, 2018 by careca

[Nine]

2 hours ago, agora said:

The problem I had was trying to get Task Scheduler to simply run a script rather than open it for editing. No matter the registry changes I made, no matter the flags set in SciteCONFIG, no matter the option configuration, I could NOT get this to work. Nothing would work. I'm sure this was me and not the software, but *finding* the solution was also not working.

Instead of whining  all around, you could simply put your code in here, and I am sure someone would have helped you out.  You took the wrong approach to the wrong solution. Two errors doesn't make a success...