How do I delete a scheduled task? 1

[FancyPrairie]

I've written code to schedule a task to run at a specific time via the Task Scheduler. I now want to be able to delete the task from the task scheduler.

I can't seem to get the following code to work. What's wrong with my syntax?

    Dim objShell As Object
 
    Set objShell = CreateObject("Wscript.Shell")
    objShell.Exec ("schtasks /delete /tn ""MyTaskName""")
    Set objShell = Nothing

 

[HarleyQuinn]

Hi FancyPrairie,

The reason I think that your delete is failing as the way you're currently using it the command prompt will ask the user if they're sure they want to delete the task, but the command window will close before the request is ever seen by the user.

If you pass the /f switch to schtasks that will forcefully delete the task and suppress warnings (even if the task is running). So to delete the task try:

objShell.Exec ("schtasks /delete /tn ""MyTaskName"" /f")

Hope this helps

HarleyQuinn
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[FancyPrairie]

That worked! Thanks

 

[HarleyQuinn]

Glad I could help, thanks for the star

HarleyQuinn
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