No permission to disable a task in Task Scheduler

Anonymous
2017-11-17T09:57:52+00:00

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).

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Anonymous
2018-03-13T19:46:31+00:00

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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  1. Anonymous
    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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  2. Anonymous
    2017-11-17T11:59:12+00:00

    Local Group Memberships      *Administrators       *Performance Log Users

                                 *Users

    Global Group memberships     *None

    Included "Global Group memberships" in case it matters.

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  3. Anonymous
    2017-11-17T12:05:23+00:00

    You must grant full access for Administrators to the file that is behind this task. You will find it here: C:\Windows\System32\Tasks (or in one of its subfolders).

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  4. Anonymous
    2017-11-17T12:19:58+00:00

    I went to C:\Windows\System32\Tasks\Microsoft\Windows\UpdateOrchestrator, went to "Reboot" file's properties > Security, it said I need Read permissions, I clicked Advanced, in Permissions selected Administrators, clicked Edit, checked "Full control", applied changes and I still cannot disable that task. I tried closing and reopening Task Scheduler.

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