Task Scheduler - Enable history tab

By xngo on March 15, 2020

In MS Windows, if the History tab of your task from the Task Scheduler is disabled, then do the followings to enable it:

  1. Run your Task Scheduler as an administrator.
    MS Windows - Task Scheduler - Run as administrator
  2. Right-click on Task Scheduler (Local) and then click Enable All Tasks History.
    MS Windows - Task Scheduler - Enable All Tasks History

Prompt

You can also enable the History tab of the Task Scheduler from command prompt too. However, ensure that you run it as an administrator.

wevtutil set-log Microsoft-Windows-TaskScheduler/Operational /enabled:true
Task Scheduler, MS Windows

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Xuan Ngo is the founder of OpenWritings.net. He currently lives in Montreal, Canada. He loves to write about programming and open source subjects.