Issue upgrading to Windows 11 from Windows 10

Question

Hi,

I've been having some real issues upgrading to Windows 11. After some searching it seems that the issue was down to a Task Name called "Microsoft Compatibility Appraiser" the path is Task Scheduler Library -> Microsoft -> Windows -> Application Experience.

When I run the task the upgrade works, but if the status is "Ready" the upgrade won't work.

I've want to created a Powershell command to start this task and have found the below:

start-scheduledTask -TaskName "Microsoft Compatibility Appraiser" but this gives me this error Start-scheduledTask : The System cannot find the file specified

Get-ScheduledTask - TaskPath "\Microsoft\Windows\Application Experience" Start-ScheduledTask but this will run all the tasks with the Application Experience folder.

Is there a command to just start the Microsoft Compatibility Appraiser task?

Thanks,

Brian

Answer 1

Thanks for posting your question in the Microsoft Q&A forum.

You can use the Get-ScheduledTask cmdlet along with a filter to specifically get the "Microsoft Compatibility Appraiser" task and then use Start-ScheduledTask to start it.

# Get the task with the name "Microsoft Compatibility Appraiser" in the specified path
$task = Get-ScheduledTask -TaskPath "\Microsoft\Windows\Application Experience" | Where-Object { $_.TaskName -eq "Microsoft Compatibility Appraiser" }

# Check if the task is found
if ($task) {
    # Start the task
    Start-ScheduledTask -Task $task
} else {
    Write-Host "Task not found."
}