Executable creating a scheduled task behaves unexpectedly when running with SYSTEM privileges.

Question

I have a cpp program which creates a task that runs a command to delete a directory. The task has a few seconds delay after registration. When I run as administrator everything goes as usual, but when I create an elevated shell using psexec -i -s cmd and attempt to run the program the task loses its delay, and any record of it in registry or the task scheduler is gone like it never existed. When I run directly from psexec using psexec -i -s something.exe I get an access denied error. The task does execute though and does what it is supposed to and the directory is deleted. Tested on both windows 11 and windows 7

Answer 1

Hi, I am Dave, I will help you with this.

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