I need to delete a scheduled task folders on a lot of machines, ideally with PowerShell. I couldn't find anything on how to do that - it seems like the documentation covers everyting but folders.
Did I miss someting?
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2It looks like deleting the registry key here would work: `HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Schedule\TaskCache\Tree\PathToFolder` – Greg Askew May 17 '22 at 10:07
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This is short, hard ... and works. – bjoster May 31 '22 at 11:37
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Looks like you can't do that with the Task Scheduler cmdlet.
However, someone posted the solution on StackOverflow: How to delete folder from Task Scheduler with PowerShell? :
$scheduleObject = New-Object -ComObject Schedule.Service
$scheduleObject.connect()
$rootFolder = $scheduleObject.GetFolder("\")
$rootFolder.DeleteFolder("My Task Folder",$null)
The documentation about DeleteFolder is available here:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/taskschd/taskfolder-deletefolder
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1Yes, that works. But before it does, the task folder needs to be emptied. And that again needs some syntax I am not aware of. In batch, to delete all tasks in a folder "test", I would use
for /f "tokens=1" %%a in ('schtasks /tn \test\ ^|findstr /v "TaskName ==== Folder"') do schtasks /delete /tn \test\%%a /f– Bernd Schwanenmeister May 19 '22 at 07:57 -
@BerndSchwanenmeister Powershell equivalent: `Get-ScheduledTask | where TaskPath -eq "\MyPath\" | Unregister-ScheduledTask -Confirm:$false` – Swisstone May 20 '22 at 19:23