Task does not trigger on logon of user if the user autologon, but works when manually enters the password

Question

I am trying on configure a task in taskscheduler that triggers on logon of a specific user. The user is configured to login automatically by using https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/autologon

functionality.

the task does not seem to run if the autologin is enables. But it runs when I manually enter the password. how can I fix it?

Answer 1

Hello

Thank you for your question and reaching out.

1. Please check the Run task as soon as possible after a scheduled start is missed checkbox, and…
2. Select to Stop the existing instance if the task is already running.
3. Disable fast startup using below from elevated prompt.

Powercfg -h off

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Answer 2

Hi,

Thanks for the reply!

This did not solve my problem. Let me explain whats happening.

I set up autologon for a specific user(developer) by using https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/autologon.

I created a task, to trigger at logon of the user

The task does not run when the user autologs in , but it runs when I disable autologin and the user manually enters username and password to login.

I also see that the task runs on restart of my windows machine, not sure why that is happening. Can you please help me here?