Posts Tagged ‘cmd files’
Scheduled tasks created by schtasks do not run – “could not start”
The reason for this is quite simple, but once again the information on the web is misleading. The schtasks parameter concerned is /tr, this tells the scheduler what to run. The value must be enclosed in quotes inside the schedule job file if the path name contains spaces. Therefore the string that must be delivered is
“C:\Program Files\Scheduled\Program.exe” -Param=P
To include the double quote character in the string use \” (not ^”) so the /tr parameter looks like:
/tr “\”C:\Program Files\Scheduled\Program.exe\” -Param=P”
full details from Microsoft here, see the Workaround tab
how to get rid of those annoying 3 encoding characters written at the start of a text file
If your text file looks like
TEXT
or similar the you have generated encoding characters, to generate the file without them use
Dim TextString As String = “TEXT”
My .Computer.FileSystem.WriteAllText(“C:\TEXT.TXT” , TextString, False, System.Text.Encoding.ASCII)
the Default option will encode in ANSI, but still provide the encoding string.
