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).

Very happy to help - the whole business is such a time-wasting pain! Here is a site that I found to be very helpful in this area, especially the section entitled "Addendum: Windows 10 ‘Get Updates’ Pop-Up" Excerpt from site: With Windows 10 Pro and the group policy edit enabled to stop auto updates, it introduces a new nag prompt that can be extremely disruptive. Typically after a few days of a new update being released, auto-update will start to launch a notify pop-up banner once or twice a day. This banner prompt will tab out of any application, fullscreen video, and worst of all, games. The banner pop-up takes full control of the user interface, greying out the background, and there is only a single button to click – Get Updates. This will launch Windows update where you’ll be prompted to install everything listed. This will keeping popping up daily until you install the updates, tabbing out in the middle of games or watching a movie – talk about intrusive nagware Microsoft. It goes on to describe how to deal with this [words fail me...] feature, which I experienced a few times. Some light entertainment....!

Only member of Administrators, Backup Operators, or sometimes Server Operators group on the local computer can schedule a task by default. I am trying to update the settings for the "Task Scheduler" and getting this message "The user account you are operating under does not have permission to disable this task." I am a local administrator as shown below. Can you provide the steps to add the "Backup Operators" and "Server Operators" to my account? PS C:\Users\admin2> net user Tom User name tom Full Name Comment User's comment Country/region code 000 (System Default) Account active Yes Account expires Never Password last set 2/6/2016 8:40:24 PM Password expires Never Password changeable 2/6/2016 8:40:24 PM Password required Yes User may change password Yes Workstations allowed All Logon script User profile Home directory Last logon 1/27/2018 8:55:41 AM Logon hours allowed All Local Group Memberships *Administrators Global Group memberships *None The command completed successfully.

Same issue. I tried all the permission changes Frederik recommended and disabled the Windows Update service in Sys Config. After a reboot I stopped getting the original error ("The user account you are operating under... etc") and the Reboot task is now labeled as Disabled. I'm assuming this solved the issue for now. As an extra measure I tried to disable the "One time" trigger within the Reboot task. When I uncheck the "Enabled" button it asks for login credentials for a user called "S-1-5-18". (???) My admin password does not work and changing the user to admin doesn't work either but encounters an error each time. Any idea what this is or how I can get permission to disable a trigger?

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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2018-03-11T15:24:28+00:00

I'm having the same problem and I see a solution has been found. Can you post a step by step guide?
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2018-02-25T04:37:30+00:00

Very happy to help - the whole business is such a time-wasting pain!

Here is a site that I found to be very helpful in this area, especially the section entitled "Addendum: Windows 10 ‘Get Updates’ Pop-Up"

Excerpt from site:

With Windows 10 Pro and the group policy edit enabled to stop auto updates, it introduces a new nag prompt that can be extremely disruptive. Typically after a few days of a new update being released, auto-update will start to launch a notify pop-up banner once or twice a day. This banner prompt will tab out of any application, fullscreen video, and worst of all, games.

The banner pop-up takes full control of the user interface, greying out the background, and there is only a single button to click – Get Updates. This will launch Windows update where you’ll be prompted to install everything listed. This will keeping popping up daily until you install the updates, tabbing out in the middle of games or watching a movie – talk about intrusive nagware Microsoft.

It goes on to describe how to deal with this [words fail me...] feature, which I experienced a few times.

Some light entertainment....!
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2018-01-27T14:42:16+00:00

Only member of Administrators, Backup Operators, or sometimes Server Operators group on the local computer can schedule a task by default.

I am trying to update the settings for the "Task Scheduler" and getting this message "The user account you are operating under does not have permission to disable this task." I am a local administrator as shown below.

Can you provide the steps to add the "Backup Operators" and "Server Operators" to my account?

PS C:\Users\admin2> net user Tom

User name tom

Full Name

Comment

User's comment

Country/region code 000 (System Default)

Account active Yes

Account expires Never

Password last set 2/6/2016 8:40:24 PM

Password expires Never

Password changeable 2/6/2016 8:40:24 PM

Password required Yes

User may change password Yes

Workstations allowed All

Logon script

User profile

Home directory

Last logon 1/27/2018 8:55:41 AM

Logon hours allowed All

Local Group Memberships *Administrators

Global Group memberships *None

The command completed successfully.
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2018-01-11T02:04:02+00:00

Same issue. I tried all the permission changes Frederik recommended and disabled the Windows Update service in Sys Config. After a reboot I stopped getting the original error ("The user account you are operating under... etc") and the Reboot task is now labeled as Disabled. I'm assuming this solved the issue for now.

As an extra measure I tried to disable the "One time" trigger within the Reboot task. When I uncheck the "Enabled" button it asks for login credentials for a user called "S-1-5-18". (???) My admin password does not work and changing the user to admin doesn't work either but encounters an error each time. Any idea what this is or how I can get permission to disable a trigger?
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