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Listing ALL Tasks and/or Trimming Entries in Task Scheduler
A recent thread on a Task Scheduler error got me looking at my own and looking for a way to list the scheduled tasks. Bummer. There doesn't seem to be a way to export or list them but I did find that you can display the Active tasks. (Not disabled, not expired) I would still like to find a way to list ALL tasks because over the years, I know I disabled a few I felt were extraneous at the time. And, over the years, I forgot what they were. So does anyone know a way to list all of them?
I stumbled across another MS extra "feature" that runs every 14 days that I think is useless to me so I disabled that one too. It's called Power Efficiency Diagnostics. It analyzes power usage over a 60 second period and produces a HTML report that tries to make you feel guilty about turning on your machine. I personally don't care how much power I use when the PC is on as long as it's fast and does what I want when I want. When I'm finished using it, I turn it off and do other work. And, I think there's a better use for the 18MB of disk space it uses on my SSD.
If you want to see your Power Efficiency report, navigate to here:
C:\Users\All Users\Microsoft\Windows\Power Efficiency Diagnostics\energy-report.html
Oh yeah, if you want to see all Active tasks:
Click Start > Right Click Computer > Manage
Expand System Tools, click on Task Schedule
In the Center Pane, scroll to Active Tasks