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[SOLVED] Task Scheduler: Remote Computer Not Found AGAIN

Anonymous
Dec 8, 2020, 10:45 PM

Updating to 2004 left me with broken task scheduler. I was able somehow to get it back by updating to 20H2 and running the last (after dozen of times before updating) sfc /scannow by miracle. I had no idea what fixed it but hey it was working so ok. NOW all of a sudden task scheduler is givin the SAME ERROR as before, AGAIN. It's unbelievable.

The last thing my PC has done that I can associate to this problem is a quality update for 20H2. I can't find absolutely nothing on the internet. I have performed all the scannow and DISM stuff many times now. No issues have been found. I have also used a restore point previous the last couple windows updates but it didn't work.

Initially, by trying to start the "schedule" service it reported the "1067: the process terminated unexpectedly" error, so the service won't start. Now the service starts but when openin task scheduler the "remote computer not found" message appears, and task scheduler won't be able to read anything from my PC. (The remote computer of course is the local one).

Startup for the "schedule" service is set to automatic and has never been changed.

Task scheduler is inaccessible even through elevated CMD, as typing "schtasks" or "schtasks /query" do both result in "wrong network address".

This is RIDICULOUS. I really hope Microsoft can do something about this and stop messing up with my PC.

[SOLUTION] Recap: my Task Scheduler service wouldn't automatically start even though the service startup was set to automatic both in Services and Registry. If I tried manually starting it I would get either errors (see above) or fake starts (the service resulted as running but would not be picked up as such by e.g. Disk Defragmentation Utility).

While a commonly proposed solution was adding a "start" key in the registry to set the automatic service startup [value: 2] (in my case it was already present), I edited the value to 3 [manual startup] (since the option to change the startup behaviour is greyed out in Services). So now my Task Scheduler service is set to manual startup and it starts up at boot and everything related to it works as intended (at least for now).

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  1. Anonymous
    Dec 8, 2020, 11:05 PM

    Hello fra.carol, welcome to the Microsoft community, my name is Luiz Cruz, an independent consultant and I would be happy to help you.

    To activate the task scheduler, I suggest you use the steps below:

    1. Click on the Start Menu and in the Search field type “CMD”;
    2. Right-click on the Command Prompt item;
    3. Then click Run as Administrator;
    4. At the Command Prompt, type the commands listed below and press Enter after each line:

    Net start Schedule

    Reg add "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Services\Schedule" /v Start /t REG_DWORD /D 2 /f

    1. Restart the system.

    Hope this helps. If it was resolved, please click Yes to the question. Did that solve your problem? Because other people may be having the same difficulty and so you can help them.

    If the error still occurs, feel free to post again. We will be ready to help!

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  2. Anonymous
    Dec 9, 2020, 10:20 PM

    Dear LuizCruz, before proceeding with the "create an installation media for another computer" i chose "upgrade this pc now", just to give it a shot. Even though my pc was already on the latest windows version available, the "update" took place successfully, though it did not solve my issue. Then i tried many tike sscannow and DISM commands but with no luck.

    So i proceeded with the repair procedure by booting from a usb installation media, though i did not understand how to, from the link you provided. Since mine is a dell machine, i used the one-time boot (or something like that) procedure and successfully selected my usb drive, though the installation dialog would not look like what you had described, so i didn't proceed. After booting back again to the OS, i tried opening task scheduler and now it works as intended (spoiler alert, i have absolutely no idea why).

    Before being able to boot to the usb drive, i had shut down (not restarted) and powered up the pc to try to boot to the usb drive (but it would not pick it up) and i noticed that while booting to the os (not usb) one of those times the lockscreen background had changed. The story gets kinda complicated because it's been months now since Spotlight has stopped working on my pc, and i currently had an image chosen from the standard ones in settings, as nor spotlight nor one of my personal images would load anyomore (instead i get a blank background).

    In the past weeks i've tried following some of the many guides online that tell how to fix spotlight; they involve running some powershell stuff etc. Do you think the spotlight thing and the task scheduler thing might be correlated??

    This is melting me down.

    Thank you again for your time.

    EDIT!!!!!! I HAVE RESTARTED MY PC ONE TIME AND THE "REMOTE COMPUTER NOT FOUND" MESSAGE IS BACK AGAIN!!!!

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  3. Anonymous
    Dec 9, 2020, 12:10 AM

    I tried to perform (again) the actions you suggested but unfortunately the result is the same. I was able to get the service running but the remote computer not found error is still there.

    I wonder if there is some sort of way to reset task scheduler to default, at least for the microsoft stuff; I don't really know if it would matter though.

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  4. Anonymous
    Dec 8, 2020, 11:34 PM

    Dear fra.carol,In case I recommend using the Windows 10 repair tools, please follow the steps below.

    Press the Windows + X keys, select Command Prompt (Admin), copy and paste the commands below and press enter after each command.

    Dism /Online /Cleanup-image /RestoreHealth

    Sfc /ScanNow

    Restart the pc.

    I hope this helps, even more!

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  5. Anonymous
    Dec 8, 2020, 11:26 PM

    Hi, thank you for your answer. Before proceeding as you suggested, I've noticed that the "start" key is already present and set to "2" in the registry location suggested, so I'd like to ask if it would create any issue.

    Also, the net start command gives "system error 1607".

    Thank you for your time.

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