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is there a way to stop Task Scheduler on startup, because I have made mistake and now my computer shuts down after 1 min, and that's not enough time to open the Task Scheduler and turn it off?

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Have your tried starting the computer in safe mode, I don't think the task manager is active in that mode.

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Ok, the safe mode didn't work, because it doesn't allow to use Task Scheduler (you can't see the tasks nor edit them) ... but luckily I set the option to run this task only on mine account (didn't have any other and the guest was turned off) but I could add new account with admins rights in the safe mode and it was a smooth ride from there :) Anyway thx for the tip about the safe mode, although I knew of it, it didn't flash my mind to use it :) – agn0stic Oct 15 '10 at 19:28
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If it's the scheduled task that's running a shutdown command, then you can try stopping it from the command line:

shutdown -a

This will abort any currently running shutdown operation.

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shutdown -a can only be used during the shutdown period, which afaik is not there if the shutdown is invoked as a task? – stijn Oct 15 '10 at 11:23
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