Please seek assisstance at: http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/pl-pl/ITCG/threadsMohammed Imtiyaz Ali

Hi, i am using a script i found to commence a windows 7 shutdown of my pc in my domain. the way i want it to work is a scheduled task calls a vbscript that set the computer to shutdown in 5 minutes, but also gives the user a chance to cancel it. the script works fine when run manually, but when set off by task schedular it shutdown in 5 minutes, but stops allowing the user to cancel the shutdown (no popup appears to cancel shutdown) Shutdown Script Const wshOK = 0 Const wshExclamation = 48 strComputer = "." strShutdown = "shutdown.exe /f /s /m \\" & strComputer strCounter = 1 Set objShell = CreateObject("Wscript.Shell") strTimeLeft = 5 Set objWMIService = GetObject("winmgmts:" & "{impersonationLevel=impersonate}!\\" & strComputer & "\root\cimv2") Set colItems = objWMIService.ExecQuery ("Select * from Win32_Process Where Name = 'explorer.exe'") If colItems.Count = 0 Then 'a returned 0 meanins explorer is not present and no one is logged in objShell.Run strShutdown 'since no one is logged in the shutdown command is issued. End If while strCounter < 11 intReturn = objShell.Popup("Your computer will shutdown in " & strTimeLeft & " minutes. Click OK to cancel the shutdown.",30, "Shutdown Pending", wshOK + wshExclamation) If intReturn = 1 Then objShell.Popup "Shutdown has been cancelled!", 6,"SHUTDOWN CANCELLED", wshOK + wshExclamation Wscript.quit 0 End If strTimeLeft = strTimeLeft - .5 strCounter = strCounter + 1 Wend objShell.Run strShutdown =============================================================== Task Schedular Script SCHTASKS /Create /RU "NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM" /NP /SC DAILY /TN Shutdown /RL HIGHEST /TR "c:\shutdown.exe" /ST 18:00 /V1

Try running your scheduled task with the interactive switch (/IT) but with a non-system account.  The SYSTEM account does not have interactive logon rights, hence, users are unable to see or interact with programs or tasks running under this account.Regards, Salvador Manaois III MCSE MCSA CEH MCITP | Enterprise/Server Admin Microsoft Certified Solutions Associate http://www.badzmanaois.com

Please seek assisstance at: http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/pl-pl/ITCG/threadsMohammed Imtiyaz Ali

Hello, I have a similar Problem (with Windows XP) and I tried the program "serviceui.exe" found in MicrosoftDeploymentToolkit 2012. It seems to solve the problem. My commandline: schtasks /create /tn "ShutdownOnIdle" /sc ONIDLE /i 30 /ru "System" /tr "%CD%\serviceui.exe \"%SystemRoot%\system32\wscript.exe\" \"//nologo %CD%\ShutdownOnIdle.vbs\"" Informations can be found here: http://blogs.technet.com/b/cameronk/archive/2010/04/27/creating-a-user-interactive-task-sequence-experience.aspx Regards, Ralf