Task scheduler is running, but sometimes does not follow the schedule

Question

I have set a task to shutdown my pc if it is idle at 10:30am.

It works fine if it is really idle at 10:30am as below on 12/01.
But sometimes if I left my pc for a while, it will automatically run the task and shutdown itself. Like on 12/07, it shutdown at 1:25pm.

Here is my task setup. Please help me to figure out the problems, thank you!!

Answer 1

Hi,

Thank you for your reply.

I checked the task contents and didn't found any suspicious configuration, also I configured a similar task with yours belong to your configuration, it shows the same action result with you.

So I think the behavior is caused by some threads which caused the computer unable to get into idle. If we want to troubleshoot further deep, we could use process monitor tool to monitor thread actions before computer shutdown and task triggered.

As the task is waiting for computer idle status instead of force computer to shutdown, so I think it would has a more flexible time than a specific time to force shutdown. So that, we think we could ignore the behavior.

Bests,

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Answer 2

Hi,

Does the issue only occur on that day 12/7 or same behavior occur on several days?

I noticed you have configured conditions for idle, please monitor the task if it works well when idle on scheduled time. If system have necessary thread to process, the idle time will delay, and task might be delay to trigger.

Also please export task file and upload to One Drive, then poste the link here for more details.

Bests,

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