{"id":19019,"date":"2022-09-26T09:28:05","date_gmt":"2022-09-26T09:28:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/?p=19019"},"modified":"2022-09-26T09:28:05","modified_gmt":"2022-09-26T09:28:05","slug":"prevent-creating-new-scheduled-tasks-in-windows-11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/prevent-creating-new-scheduled-tasks-in-windows-11\/","title":{"rendered":"Proven Way to Prevent Creating New Scheduled Tasks in Windows 11"},"content":{"rendered":"

How can I prevent users from creating new tasks in task scheduler? There is a group policy named “Task Scheduler – Prohibit New Task Creation<\/em>“, but it works with Windows 2003\/XP only.<\/p>\n

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In this tutorial we’ll show you a proven way to prevent creating new scheduled tasks from either Task Scheduler or Command Prompt in Windows 11.<\/p>\n

Part 1: Prevent Creating New Scheduled Tasks in Windows 11<\/strong><\/p>\n

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  1. Right-click the Start<\/strong> button from the taskbar, and then choose “Windows Terminal (Admin)<\/strong>“.\n

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  2. If Windows Terminal opens with a PowerShell prompt, click the downward arrow in the title bar, and select Command Prompt<\/strong>.\n

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  3. At the elevated Command Prompt, run the following commands to change permissions of the folder “C:\\Windows\\System32\\Tasks<\/em>” and grant read & execute rights to Authenticated Users<\/code> only.
    \ncacls C:\\Windows\\System32\\Tasks \/P \"Authenticated Users\":R<\/code><\/p>\n

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  4. From now on, nobody can create a new task using Task Scheduler or elevated Command Prompt.\n

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    Part 2: Restore Ability to Create New Scheduled Tasks in Windows 11<\/strong><\/p>\n

    Whenever you need to allow users to create new tasks again, follow these steps:<\/p>\n

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    1. Open an elevated Command Prompt<\/a>, run this command to take ownership of the directory “C:\\Windows\\System32\\Tasks<\/em>“.
      \ntakeown \/f C:\\Windows\\System32\\Tasks \/r<\/code><\/p>\n

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    2. Next, execute these commands to reset the folder permissions to defaults, and change ownership back.
      \nicacls C:\\Windows\\System32\\Tasks \/reset \/T \/Q \/C
      \nicacls C:\\Windows\\System32\\Tasks \/setowner \"System\" \/t<\/code><\/p>\n

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    3. When done, users can create new tasks from either Task Scheduler or elevated Command Prompt.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

      That’s it!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

      How can I prevent users from creating new tasks in task scheduler? There is a group policy named “Task Scheduler – Prohibit New Task Creation“, but it works with Windows 2003\/XP only. In this tutorial we’ll show you a proven way to prevent creating new scheduled tasks from either Task Scheduler or Command Prompt in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,10,4713],"tags":[5023,5024,5026,5025],"class_list":["post-19019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-others","category-tips-tricks","category-windows-11","tag-prevent-creating-new-task-in-task-scheduler","tag-prevent-users-from-creating-new-task-windows-11","tag-prevent-users-from-creating-scheduled-tasks","tag-prohibit-new-task-creation-windows-11"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19019","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19019"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19019\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19031,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19019\/revisions\/19031"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}