Vista - Tasks under Task Scheduler

Seeking detailed information on the Tasks that run under the Task Scheduler.

"b11_" <b11@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote ...
> Seeking detailed information on the Tasks that run under the Task
> Scheduler.

It's a very broad question. I guess you mean the Windows tasks supplied as
part of a default Vista installation?

Under the General tab for each task, there is a Description field, with the
description of the task. Under the Actions tab, you'll see the command line
which is executed by the task. There are also triggers and condition tabs to
delineate the behaviour of the task. As far as I know, that is the full
extent of the documentation about most of these built-in tasks ... it's
pretty self-evident what they do.

If you need to explore them in greater detail (which I highly recommend, for
the technical enthusiast) try running the task command line in a debugger,
or other monitoring tool such as Process Monitor, to see its internal
behaviour.

You have asked a lot of very general questions in this forum, and usually
you received pretty cursory answers. It should be apparent that you'll get
better responses by asking more focused questions; perhaps with some
explanation as to why you want the info. Folks here are just fellow users,
and answer questions only through goodwill; no-one's getting paid to write
detailed product documentation for you. This is not meant as a flame - I
applaud your keen interest in Vista's inner-workings; just friendly advice.
See http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm

Hope it helps,
--
Andrew McLaren
amclar (at) optusnet dot com dot au

Seeking more detailed explanation of each task. I thought maybe someone has
seen a website containing that info.
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"Andrew McLaren" wrote:

> "b11_" <b11@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote ...
> > Seeking detailed information on the Tasks that run under the Task
> > Scheduler.
>
> It's a very broad question. I guess you mean the Windows tasks supplied as
> part of a default Vista installation?
>
> Under the General tab for each task, there is a Description field, with the
> description of the task. Under the Actions tab, you'll see the command line
> which is executed by the task. There are also triggers and condition tabs to
> delineate the behaviour of the task. As far as I know, that is the full
> extent of the documentation about most of these built-in tasks ... it's
> pretty self-evident what they do.
>
> If you need to explore them in greater detail (which I highly recommend, for
> the technical enthusiast) try running the task command line in a debugger,
> or other monitoring tool such as Process Monitor, to see its internal
> behaviour.
>
> You have asked a lot of very general questions in this forum, and usually
> you received pretty cursory answers. It should be apparent that you'll get
> better responses by asking more focused questions; perhaps with some
> explanation as to why you want the info. Folks here are just fellow users,
> and answer questions only through goodwill; no-one's getting paid to write
> detailed product documentation for you. This is not meant as a flame - I
> applaud your keen interest in Vista's inner-workings; just friendly advice.
> See http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm
>
> Hope it helps,
> --
> Andrew McLaren
> amclar (at) optusnet dot com dot au
>
>
>

"b11_" <b11@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:BD95505B-7E02-404A-A196-39A074B03BE2@microsoft.com...
> Seeking more detailed explanation of each task. I thought maybe someone
> has
> seen a website containing that info.

Fair enough. But in that case, you should probably explain in your post that
you already studied the task descriptions and command lines; ran the
commands interactively to analyse their behaviour; searched the web for
additional information; and so on; and now you need further specific
information (explaining what particular details you're looking for).
Otherwise, it's still going to sound like you're just asking vague,
amorphous questions without being willing to do any work.

Please help us, to help you :-)

--
Andrew McLaren
amclar (at) optusnet dot com dot au