How to see scheduled task logs?

Question

On Windows 7, is there a way to see a log of scheduled tasks?

Answer 1

Sorry I can't speak to Windows 7, but on Windows XP: Start > Settings > Control Panel, then right-click on Scheduled Tasks and select OPEN. In the menu for the Scheduled Tasks list that appears, select Advanced > View log. The file it opens is C:\WINDOWS\SchedLgU.txt. On Windows XP, that file contains Unicode text, so not every editor will show it properly - but Notepad works fine.

There should be something similar in Win7.

Answer 2

The Scheduled Tasks itself provide detailed information on when a task will run and when it ran.

The Event Logs might inform you with warnings and errors when somenthing goes wrong,
you can see those in the Event Viewer.

The log of the Scheduled Tasks can also be read in the following location:

C:\Windows\Tasks\SchedLgU.txt

This file would contain the same detailed information as said before but you can go back in time, please note that this does not show warnings and errors with detailed information as those go to the event log.