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What is schtasks.exe?

Part of Manages scheduled tasks by Microsoft

What is it?

Schedules commands and programs to run periodically or at a specific time. Adds and removes tasks from the schedule, starts and stops tasks on demand, and displays and changes scheduled tasks.
Description of schtasks.exe from Microsoft
“Enables an administrator to create, delete, query, change, run, and end scheduled tasks on a local or remote computer. Running Schtasks.exe without arguments displays the status and next run time for each registered task.”
(schtasks.exe is a system file that is installed with Windows)
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How does schtasks.exe run?

Process - schtasks.exe is an instance of a running program. This program executes under the SYSTEM account within Windows with extensive privileges on the local computer, and acts as the computer on the network. schtasks.exe is executed by the process mngr.exe (Application Manager by Bit89).

How does schtasks.exe start?

Scheduled task - schtasks.exe is launched automatically by registering itself into the Windows Task Scheduler under the task name '\Microsoft\Windows\Windows Activation Technologies\ValidationTaskDeadline'. Task Scheduler provides the ability to schedule the launch of programs or scripts at pre-defined times or after specified time intervals or even with event-based triggers.

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What is the community is seeing?What is the community is doing?
About 0.5% of all Boost users have the schtasks.exe process running.Of the 0.5% of schtasks.exe users, less than 1% have disabled it.
How stable is Manages scheduled tasks?
Based on crash data discovered by Boost, stability is a measure of how sound this particular process and the average percent of times it crashes.
     schtasks.exe0.03%
Typical program1.26%
How resource intensive is schtasks.exe?
Comparison based on the average resource utilization across all programs.
0.00017% CPU1744.9%
Average CPU utilization across all programs is 0.00001%.
     1.29 MB RAM6.0%
Average private memory utilization across all programs is 21.53 MB.
 1 /min0.0%
Average I/O read and write operations for all programs is 2,253 per minute.
Typical file (disk image) location:
C:\Windows\System32\schtasks.exe

Are there other versions of Manages scheduled tasks?

schtasks.exe - version 6.2.8102.0 (winmain_win8m3.110823-1455)
schtasks.exe - version 6.1.7600.16385 (win7_rtm.090713-1255) (this)
schtasks.exe - version 6.0.6001.18000 (longhorn_rtm.080118-1840)
schtasks.exe - version 6.0.6000.16386 (vista_rtm.061101-2205)

What else is related?

themeui.dll (Windows-Design-API by Microsoft)
sstext3d.scr (Direct3D-Textbildschirmschoner by Microsoft)
photoviewershim.dll (Windows Live Photo Gallery by Microsoft)
logonui.exe (Windows-Anmeldebenutzeroberfläche by Microsoft)
msxml4a.dll (Microsoft(R) MSXML 4.0 SP1 by Microsoft)
msxml4r.dll (Microsoft(R) MSXML 4.0 SP1 by Microsoft)
msxml4.dll (Microsoft(R) MSXML 4.0 SP 2 by Microsoft)
freecell.exe (Entertainment Pack FreeCell Game by Microsoft)
wiaacmgr.exe (Windows Picture Acquisition Wizard by Microsoft)
prodaiintl1033.dll (ProdAddInIntl by Microsoft)
mimectl.dll (Microsoft® Exchange by Microsoft)
msvcp60.dll (Microsoft (R) Visual C++ by Microsoft)
rstrui.exe (System Restore Application by Microsoft)
dismhost.exe (Dism Host Servicing Process by Microsoft)
bcmsqlstartupsvc.exe (Business Contact Manager for Microsoft Outlook 2010 by Microsoft)
msonsext.dll (Microsoft Office by Microsoft)
encwcbar.dll (Microsoft Encarta by Microsoft)
workfolderssvc.dll (Microsoft® Work Folders Service by Microsoft)
appreadiness.dll (AppReadiness by Microsoft)
ole32.dll (Microsoft OLE for Windows by Microsoft)
microsoft.biztalk.brmacontrols.dll (Microsoft (R) BizTalk (R) Server 2010 by Microsoft)
ssoconfig.exe (Microsoft® Enterprise Single Sign-On by Microsoft)

Manages scheduled tasks Stability

schtasks.exe crashes or has encountered a critical error 0.8900% of the time.
1.  
Error: Stopped working (APPCRASH)
Crashing module: ntdll.dll (still researching...)
Occurred: over 6 months ago
2.  
Error: Stopped working (BEX)
Occurred: over 6 months ago

What Windows OS versions does this run on?

Windows 7 Home Premium (6.1.7600.0)
Windows 7 Professional (6.1.7600.0)
Windows 7 Ultimate (6.1.7600.0)
Windows Seven Black Edition (6.1.7600.0)
Windows 7 Ultimate (6.1.7600.0)
Windows Vista (TM) Ultimate (6.1.7600.0)

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File details

File name: schtasks.exe
Publisher: Microsoft Corporation (verified)
Name: Manages scheduled tasks
Description: Microsoft® Windows® Operating System
Version: 6.1.7600.16385 (win7_rtm.090713-1255)
Product version: 6.1.7600.16385
Size: 175.5 KB
Original file name: sctasks.exe.mui
Windows file protection: Yes

Resource utilization

CPU utilization averages
Total CPU: 0.0003673997%
Privileged CPU: 0.0001929133%
User CPU: 0.00017448646709%
Privileged CPU time: 41089.84 ms
Privileged CPU time /min: 25 ms
CPU cycle count: 142,678,249
CPU cycle count /min: 191,137
Memory utilization averages
Committed memory: 30.57 MB
Peak committed memory: 32.27 MB
Paged memory: 1.29 MB
Peak paged memory: 1.52 MB
Paged system memory: 60.75 KB
Non-paged system memory: 4.28 KB
Working set memory: 2.22 MB
Peak working set memory: 4.25 MB
Min working set memory: 2.19 MB
Private memory: 1.29 MB
Page faults: 3,857
Page faults /min: 5
Process I/O averages
Total read operations: 15
Read operations /min: 1
Total read transfer: 31.13 KB
Read transfer /min: 36 Bytes
Total other operations: 392
Other operations /min: 1
Total other transfer: 8.15 KB
Other Transfer /min: 13 Bytes
Resources
Handle count average: 112
Thread count average: 2
Thread resource averages

Process details

Runs as (owner): System
Integrety level: System
Windows platform: 32-bit
Parent Processes
mngr.exe (Application Manager by Bit89)
browserprotect.exe (Application Manager by Bit89)
flashplayerupdateservice.exe (Adobe® Flash® Player Update Service by Adobe Systems)
bitguard.exe (Application Manager by MediaTechSoft)
Process Commands
"C:\Windows\system32\schtasks.exe" /create /tn "BitGuard" /ru "SYSTEM" /sc minute /mo 1 /tr "C:\Windows\system32\sc.exe start BitGuard" /st 00:00:00
"C:\Windows\system32\schtasks.exe" /create /tn "BrowserDefendert" /ru "SYSTEM" /sc minute /mo 1 /tr "C:\Windows\system32\sc.exe start BrowserDefendert" /st 00:00:00
"C:\Windows\system32\schtasks.exe" /delete /f /tn "BrowserDefendert"
"C:\Windows\system32\schtasks.exe" /create /tn "AdobeFlashPlayerUpdate" /ru "SYSTEM" /sc hourly /mo 1 /tr "C:\Windows\system32\FlashPlayerUpdateService.exe /w" /st 00:00:00
"C:\Windows\system32\schtasks.exe" /create /tn "bProtector" /ru "SYSTEM" /sc minute /mo 1 /tr "C:\Windows\system32\sc.exe start bProtector" /st 00:00:00

Scheduled task details

Name: ValidationTaskDeadline
Command: \Microsoft\Windows\Windows Activation Technologies\ValidationTaskDeadline

Image hashes

MD5: ba17f6eba7152354fe67ade9bdcda60e
SHA-1: e3d53aace6e8765b6a4f3829aa6eb723b20efdaf
SHA-256: 7467bfceb803723e6972098878845252a032ee546912e8e6120016df47bed40f

PE image details

Subsystem: Windows Console
Langauge*: Microsoft Visual C++
File entropy: 5.77196
File packed: No
Import Table
advapi32.dll
api-ms-win-core-console-l1-1-0.dll
api-ms-win-core-datetime-l1-1-0.dll
api-ms-win-core-datetime-l1-1-1.dll
api-ms-win-core-errorhandling-l1-1-0.dll
api-ms-win-core-file-l1-1-0.dll
api-ms-win-core-file-l1-1-1.dll
api-ms-win-core-handle-l1-1-0.dll
api-ms-win-core-heap-l1-1-0.dll
api-ms-win-core-interlocked-l1-1-0.dll
api-ms-win-core-libraryloader-l1-1-0.dll
api-ms-win-core-libraryloader-l1-1-1.dll
api-ms-win-core-localization-l1-1-0.dll
api-ms-win-core-localization-l1-1-1.dll
api-ms-win-core-localregistry-l1-1-0.dll
api-ms-win-core-misc-l1-1-0.dll
api-ms-win-core-processenvironment-l1-1-0.dll
api-ms-win-core-processthreads-l1-1-0.dll
api-ms-win-core-processthreads-l1-1-1.dll
api-ms-win-core-profile-l1-1-0.dll
api-ms-win-core-registry-l1-1-0.dll
api-ms-win-core-string-l1-1-0.dll
api-ms-win-core-synch-l1-1-1.dll
api-ms-win-core-sysinfo-l1-1-0.dll
api-ms-win-core-sysinfo-l1-1-1.dll
api-ms-win-obsolete-kernelbase-l1-1-0.dll
api-ms-win-security-base-l1-1-0.dll
bcrypt.dll
kernel32.dll
ktmw32.dll
mpr.dll
msvcrt.dll
netapi32.dll
ntdll.dll
ole32.dll
secur32.dll
shlwapi.dll
user32.dll
version.dll
ws2_32.dll
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