Windows 11 24H2 automatic functions via Task scheduler not working correctly

Question

After windows update, which I think was the Defender update, some scheduled tasks stopped working correctly while others are unaffected by the update. The biggest issue caused by this update that was automatically pushed to my system was a Daily reboot task that worked flawlessly for years, and now only works after a manual reboot, and then only works for a while before the error comes back. The error is not showing as an error as far as I know, but after Windows has run on my PC for a while, if I try to manually reboot or use the task to reboot, the Del login screen comes up with the cursor spinning below it. This screen will stay just like that, with the spinning cursor, for days if I allow it to continue. When this happens, only pushing and holding the power button till PC turns off and then pushing the power button to turn it back on works to reboot the PC. Other issues are that some tasks will automatically disable themselves and will stay disabled unless I enable them. and OneDrive doesn't automatically load. I thought it was that the patch corrupted files, so I reloaded Windows using the ISO file, and only 25H was available via the website, so I upgraded to 25H2, and installed 25H2 from the ISO file. You think that would have fixed the issue, but it didn't, and even more error occured with Widgets not working. I uninstalled the latest feature, and that got me back to 24H2, but I still had the same old problem I had before. I remembered that there were SFC and DISM embedded tools that I could try, and I ran all of them in the order recommended, and they found some errors, just not the ones that were causing my errors, and fixed them. So I ran chkdsk with the recommended tags to fix any errors it detected, and then ran SFC and DISM again, which ran without errors but didn't fix my issues either. Whatever is causing the errors is not loaded at first, because after I restart my PC for a while, the tasks are ready, and during that time, I can run the reboot task, and my PC reboots just like it used to. Wait a few hours and try to run it, and I have to turn the power off and on to get my PC to reboot. Now, as far as the task that disables itself after I activate it, they stay activated for the rest of the day. So whatever is causing them to disable in the first place is a one-time thing that after it occurs it doesn't occur again until after a reboot. Windows itself is running fine, and all the tasks run fine as far as I can tell, but the ones that are disabling themselves are not just created by the software I installed, but also some were added automatically by Microsoft, so I am not sure what they do. My OneDrive seems to have a mind of its own and will sometimes load as it is supposed to, and other time will not load and I have to manually open it to get it to load. Any help resolving this issue would be appreciated.

Answer 1

There's a lot to digest in your question.

An online forum like this does not lend itself to troubleshooting multiple strange problems like you describe. Let's start by focusing on one issue and see where that leads us.

Launch Computer Management and in the Task Scheduler verify that you have task history enabled. You should see events in the History tab.

If a task gets disabled, you should then see an event in the History tab. Note that there appears to be a bug on my Win11 25H2 laptop. In the test I did, the user "admin" did not disable it. I did it while logged on with my MS account. We'll just have to see what event you get.

Monitor the Next Run Time, Last Run Time, and Last Run Result columns for the tasks that you consider the most critical.

Wait a few hours and try to run it, and I have to turn the power off and on to get my PC to reboot.

That comment indicates to me that you may have a memory leak of some kind.

Reboot to get a fresh start.

Then launch task manager and on a piece of paper make note of the starting values in the cpu and memory tabs.

Monitor cpu and memory usage over time.

In the Details tab right click on the column headers and add the Working Set (memory), PF Delta, and Command Line column.

Sort by memory usage and see if you have some process that is consuming all of your memory. Here I put a Powershell process in a loop as an example.

Answer 2

I let it run a while, just as you suggested, and also tried to figure out what I was looking at. I kept wanting to make changes, but finally just left it alone and let it pull the information. Almost all of the tasks say that the system disabled them. some don't even show that they are disabled, like the OneDrive ones. I also saw where the user disabled one or two, but I didn't disable them. As for which are the most important, I would think any of the updaters are most important. I like the Amcrest one ,but I have never been able to have it open up my cameras so I have aways had to manually open the cameras in that app which really defeats the purpose of automating it. If I have to go to it to open the cameras then I could just as easily go to it to start it. Now for the ones that I didn't enter I would assume they may be important as well even though I didn't put them in. Now I will go to the rest of the Q/A and work on getting the other information you requested.

Answer 3

Sorry, I was gathering the rest of the data that you requested and wanted to get a full picture for you on the CPU and the Memory. I did several pulls, and the very first one is after a reboot without the tasks being re-enabled that keep getting disabled. I then enabled everything, and OneDrive was not loading, so I loaded it as well. The last cpu and memory are after a reboot and after the tasks are enabled. OneDrive was reactivated after it was removed again during the reboot. Interestingly, I found a setting that was disabled on the OneDrive, and I thought that would allow it to be loaded again during a reboot. After I pulled the cpu and memory in between, I did a shutdown of the PC, and the PC didn't complete the shutdown, so I had to hold the power button to get it to turn off, and then turned it back on and enabled all the disabled tasks, and had to reload the OneDrive again because it still didn't automatically reload.. I wanted to explain the pictures before I sent them in the order of the time I saved in each picture, along with a brief timeline.

2:23 AM I got up and the curser was spinning as it always does now so I held the power button to turn the Power off the turned the power button back on. I took the first readings of the CPU and the Memory without enabling the disabled tasks and without restarting OneDrive. Then I realized I didn't change any of the settings before I took the screenshots so before I took the next reading, I enabled all the stuff listed above first.

8:21 AM I took the screenshot with everything enabled, just like I would normally run my system if it booted up properly. I didn't restart because this was looking for changes in the initial setup but because I made changes to the initial setting by setting it to enable tasks and adding OneDrive back.

10:02 AM I took another screenshot of the CPU and Memory to see if anything changed. Still no reboot

10:25 AM I did the shutdown that didn't shut down the PC, so I had to hold the power button till the power went off and turn the power back on. (Even using the shutdown from the Windows Key will not complete the shutdown process. Only pushing and holding the power turns the PC off so that I can turn it back on to boot back up.)

So I will post this and post the screenshots, and then follow up with the new tasks for gathering information to assist.

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