{"id":74197,"date":"2015-01-16T11:59:00","date_gmt":"2015-01-16T11:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.technet.microsoft.com\/heyscriptingguy\/2015\/01\/16\/powertip-use-powershell-to-delete-scheduled-task\/"},"modified":"2019-02-18T10:35:57","modified_gmt":"2019-02-18T17:35:57","slug":"powertip-use-powershell-to-delete-scheduled-task","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/powertip-use-powershell-to-delete-scheduled-task\/","title":{"rendered":"PowerTip: Use PowerShell to Delete Scheduled Task"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b style=\"font-size:12px\">Summary<\/b><span style=\"font-size:12px\">: Use Windows PowerShell to delete a scheduled task.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/q-for-powertip.jpg\" alt=\"Hey, Scripting Guy! Question\" \/>&nbsp;How can I use Windows PowerShell to delete a scheduled task?<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:30px\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/a-for-powertip.jpg\" alt=\"Hey, Scripting Guy! Answer\" \/>&nbsp;Use the&nbsp;<b>Unregister-ScheduledTask<\/b>&nbsp;function. By default, this command will prompt for confirmation. Therefore, <br \/>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;if you want to use a Windows PowerShell script to remotely delete the scheduled task, you will need to supply <br \/>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;confirmation in the command. Here is an example:<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:120px\">Unregister-ScheduledTask -TaskName applog -Confirm:$false<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:60px\"><b>Note&nbsp;<\/b>&nbsp;This command was introduced in Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012 in the Scheduled Task module, <br \/>and it must be run with admin rights.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:30px\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/7610.Dr.ScriptoForTips.jpg\" alt=\" \" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summary: Use Windows PowerShell to delete a scheduled task. &nbsp;How can I use Windows PowerShell to delete a scheduled task? &nbsp;Use the&nbsp;Unregister-ScheduledTask&nbsp;function. By default, this command will prompt for confirmation. Therefore, &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;if you want to use a Windows PowerShell script to remotely delete the scheduled task, you will need to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":596,"featured_media":87096,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[31,356,564,3,45],"class_list":["post-74197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-scripting","tag-operating-system","tag-powertip","tag-scheduled-task","tag-scripting-guy","tag-windows-powershell"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>Summary: Use Windows PowerShell to delete a scheduled task. &nbsp;How can I use Windows PowerShell to delete a scheduled task? &nbsp;Use the&nbsp;Unregister-ScheduledTask&nbsp;function. By default, this command will prompt for confirmation. Therefore, &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;if you want to use a Windows PowerShell script to remotely delete the scheduled task, you will need to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74197","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/596"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74197"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74197\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}