How to delete a Scheduled task folder with PowerShell?

bjoster

9/17/23, 9:15 AM

I need to delete a scheduled task folders on a lot of machines, ideally with PowerShell. I couldn't find anything on how to do that - it seems like the documentation covers everyting but folders.

Did I miss someting?

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Greg Askew

9/17/23, 10:07 AM

It looks like deleting the registry key here would work: `HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Schedule\TaskCache\Tree\PathToFolder`

bjoster

9/30/23, 11:37 AM

This is short, hard ... and works.

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Swisstone

9/17/23, 7:17 PM

Looks like you can't do that with the Task Scheduler cmdlet.

However, someone posted the solution on StackOverflow: How to delete folder from Task Scheduler with PowerShell? :

$scheduleObject = New-Object -ComObject Schedule.Service
$scheduleObject.connect()
$rootFolder = $scheduleObject.GetFolder("\")
$rootFolder.DeleteFolder("My Task Folder",$null)

The documentation about DeleteFolder is available here:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/taskschd/taskfolder-deletefolder

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Bernd Schwanenmeister

9/19/23, 7:57 AM

Yes, that works. But before it does, the task folder needs to be emptied. And that again needs some syntax I am not aware of. In batch, to delete all tasks in a folder "test", I would use <code> for /f "tokens=1" %%a in ('schtasks /tn \test\ ^|findstr /v "TaskName ==== Folder"') do schtasks /delete /tn \test\%%a /f</code>

Swisstone

9/20/23, 7:23 PM

@BerndSchwanenmeister Powershell equivalent: `Get-ScheduledTask | where TaskPath -eq "\MyPath\" | Unregister-ScheduledTask -Confirm:$false`

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