I was searching for a solution to my laptop starting by itself after going to sleep mode. I've read a possible solution is disabling "Reboot" task in "UpdateOrchestrator". Unfortunately, when I try to do this I get a message: Task Scheduler The user account you are operating under does not have permission to disable this task. OK I don't know how to get that permission. I opened Task Scheduler as administrator, also Control Panel\User Accounts\User Accounts\Manage Accounts says there is one user account and it's type is "Administrator". I'm on the current version of Windows 10 (the newest Creator's Update or whatever it's called).

THANK YOU!!! I don't know why Microsoft makes it so difficult to take control of your own PC. If they could find a way to reboot the PC and return all the open applications to the state they were in prior, I'd have no problem, but I have many open applications and can't afford to close and reopen then every time M$ decides I need an update. This has been driving me crazy, as my PC will wake up in the middle of the night and just sit there idling, wasting electricity (which is NOT cheap!). Will M$ reimburse me of all the power it's wasted?

I tried to run: psexec.exe -i -s %windir%\system32\taskschd.msc /s When i do this it says that it can't find the file for some reason. I went into C:\Windows\System32 to see if the file exists there, and it does. It really bugs me that i can't change anything in the Task Scheduler. Any idea why this is happening?

Unfortunately, I'm running into the same issue, except the reboot task was created by the Local System :/ If I go into properties and turn off "wake computer to run this task", it prompts me for a password to the S-1-5-18 account.

Let's make sure your account really is an admin account. Please run this command from a Command Prompt (cmd.exe) and report the "Local Group Memberships" accounts. net user "%UserName%"

No permission to disable a task in Task Scheduler

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I was searching for a solution to my laptop starting by itself after going to sleep mode. I've read a possible solution is disabling "Reboot" task in "UpdateOrchestrator". Unfortunately, when I try to do this I get a message:

Task Scheduler

The user account you are operating under does not have permission to disable this task.

I don't know how to get that permission. I opened Task Scheduler as administrator, also Control Panel\User Accounts\User Accounts\Manage Accounts says there is one user account and it's type is "Administrator".

I'm on the current version of Windows 10 (the newest Creator's Update or whatever it's called).

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I'm having the same problem and I see a solution has been found. Can you post a step by step guide?

First go here to download PsTools. Extract it to a folder on your desktop.

Open Start and type cmd. Right-click the program and choose to run as administrator.

Navigate to the folder where you extracted the tools by typing "cd C:\Users\Username\Desktop\Pstools", replace Username with your username and Pstools with the folder where you extracted the tools.

When you have navigated to the correct folder, copy the following command without the quotes: "psexec.exe -i -s %windir%\system32\mmc.exe /s taskschd.msc".

Open the command window and right click, choose paste. Press enter.

Navigate to Task Scheduler Library -> Microsoft -> Windows -> UpdateOrchestrator.

Right click the task called Reboot and click on Disable.

The task should now be disabled.

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2018-05-10T17:09:37+00:00

THANK YOU!!! I don't know why Microsoft makes it so difficult to take control of your own PC. If they could find a way to reboot the PC and return all the open applications to the state they were in prior, I'd have no problem, but I have many open applications and can't afford to close and reopen then every time M$ decides I need an update. This has been driving me crazy, as my PC will wake up in the middle of the night and just sit there idling, wasting electricity (which is NOT cheap!). Will M$ reimburse me of all the power it's wasted?
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2018-01-25T04:33:59+00:00

I tried to run: psexec.exe -i -s %windir%\system32\taskschd.msc /s

When i do this it says that it can't find the file for some reason. I went into C:\Windows\System32 to see if the file exists there, and it does. It really bugs me that i can't change anything in the Task Scheduler. Any idea why this is happening?
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2018-01-28T17:17:40+00:00

Unfortunately, I'm running into the same issue, except the reboot task was created by the Local System :/ If I go into properties and turn off "wake computer to run this task", it prompts me for a password to the S-1-5-18 account.
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2017-11-17T10:57:17+00:00

Let's make sure your account really is an admin account. Please run this command from a Command Prompt (cmd.exe) and report the "Local Group Memberships" accounts.

net user "%UserName%"
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