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Task Scheduler action on Shutdown
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?>
<Task version="1.2" xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/windows/2004/02/mit/task">
<RegistrationInfo>
<Date>2021-11-15T11:01:07.6898855</Date>
<Author>Carol Ouellet</Author>
<URI>\Backup Files</URI>
<Description>Launch a task before rebooting/poweroff. This can be useful for task to be performed before Windows Update force reboot the PC</Description>
</RegistrationInfo>
<Triggers>
<EventTrigger>
<Enabled>true</Enabled>
<Subscription>&lt;QueryList&gt;&lt;Query Id="0" Path="System"&gt;&lt;Select Path="System"&gt;*[System[Provider[@Name='User32'] and EventID=1074]]&lt;/Select&gt;&lt;/Query&gt;&lt;/QueryList&gt;</Subscription>
</EventTrigger>
</Triggers>
<Settings>
<MultipleInstancesPolicy>IgnoreNew</MultipleInstancesPolicy>
<DisallowStartIfOnBatteries>true</DisallowStartIfOnBatteries>
<StopIfGoingOnBatteries>true</StopIfGoingOnBatteries>
<AllowHardTerminate>true</AllowHardTerminate>
<StartWhenAvailable>false</StartWhenAvailable>
<RunOnlyIfNetworkAvailable>false</RunOnlyIfNetworkAvailable>
<IdleSettings>
<StopOnIdleEnd>true</StopOnIdleEnd>
<RestartOnIdle>false</RestartOnIdle>
</IdleSettings>
<AllowStartOnDemand>true</AllowStartOnDemand>
<Enabled>true</Enabled>
<Hidden>false</Hidden>
<RunOnlyIfIdle>false</RunOnlyIfIdle>
<WakeToRun>false</WakeToRun>
<ExecutionTimeLimit>PT72H</ExecutionTimeLimit>
<Priority>7</Priority>
</Settings>
<Actions Context="Author">
<Exec>
<Command>"session.xml backup script.bat"</Command>
</Exec>
</Actions>
</Task>
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karoltheguy commented Nov 15, 2021

Used for Notepad++ Session.xml that never gets backed up. The command launches a bat file with an echo f | xcopy /f /y "source" "target" command.

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