Sounds like a question for the Task Scheduler team - have you had this issue
with any other tasks? Is defrag the only one you're trying to run from
sleep?


"Timdog" <trednie@sympatico.ca> wrote in message
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> Having some trouble with my defragment task. I set up a scheduled task to
> wake the computer and run defragment. The computer at the appropriate
> time starts, but shuts off approximately 2 minutes later for a minute,
> then starts up again only to keep repeating this until I actually logon.
> I have the timer for the power profile under the main user to sleep after
> 2 hours, but this keeps happening. Sleep otherwise works properly.
> Does anyone know how to get this to run without this shutdown/startup
> happening?