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Hi,
I'm trying to make a scheduled task to run every 5 minutes but I don't seem to get it to run.
If I right click it and make it run manually it works so the path to the file is correct and working, also the .bat file works when I double click it.
Under the history tab I can't see any errors...
Hardware/Software
. existing HP notebook with Win7 32bit
Symptoms
. to diagnose a virus attack, it helps to know, to the second, when a file
was updated. With only a sorted ADMIN DIR output B 4 the restore, it could
only log to the minute. Tho I eventually saw the files it created, seconds...