Task Scheduler credentials not working

[ultimategolden]

Hi Everyone,

 

Yesterday night, at 3am my computer decided to wake up from hibernate on its own. Given the 6 fans i have in it and the RGBs my room lit up like a chrismas tree.

I went in the task scheduler to investigate and saw the Schedule Wake to Work was set up on the date it woke up at exactly 3am. I tried removing the box "wake the computer to run this task" but was prompted with a credentials box.

Any log in attempt i tried failed. As if it doesn't recognize my password. I am fully admin on this computer and there are no other users. See picture attached for better understanding. I basically cannot edit any task without the credentials and my credentials don't work. I tried running the task scheduler as admin and booting it from the cmd prompt but nothing worked. I tried different accounts or using the whoami username but that didn't work either. I am running windows 11 pro.

Any help?

[NinJake]

This is a task that the SYSTEM account uses. It is what allows your computer to run updates on your computer when you aren't using it. As it's a task that's baked into Windows, I'd highly recommend against trying to fiddle with it too much but there are some utilities that supposedly work for allowing you to change or delete this.

 

Once again, I don't recommend that.

 

You could at the very least go into Power Options and Disable "Allow Wake Timers" and see if that fixes your computer from waking up at night. (Picture in spoiler)

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You can also take a look in the Windows Update settings, attempt to manually configure your "Active Hours" so that updates get delivered at a better time for you instead of 3am.

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