Batch file continues to run command after Task Scheduler stops it

Question

I have a scheduled task running at 00:00 that opens a .bat file containing a robocopy command, with the task set to stop after 4 minutes, and to force stop if not ending when requested.

It seems the Task Scheduler stop command is ignored until the robocopy command finishes, which seems to me to defeat the point - is there a way around this?

• The message I would expect is in the history at 00:04, however the output file of robocopy continues running for a further 4 minutes, only stopping at 00:08:

  Task Scheduler terminated {uuid} instance of the Taskname task due to exceeding the time allocated for execution, as configured in the task definition.
  User Action: Increase the configured task timeout or investigate external reasons for the delay.

• There are other commands in the .bat file, but the robocopy step is the one running at the time the scheduler tried to stop the task, with the command after it not running:

   MkDir "C:\Destination\Folder"
     RoboCopy "C:\Source\Folder" "C:\Destination\Folder" /MOV /IS /S /R:0 /LOG:"C:\output.txt"
     RmDir "C:\Destination\Folder" /s /q
  

Answer 1

@JW0914 says right:

I believe this is normal behavior, as the task and script are two separate entities - while the task starts the script, the script isn't the task, so it should run to completion independent of the task itself (at least this has been my experience with starting a RoboCopy script in Task Scheduler). Microsoft Docs for Task Scheduler would need to be referenced (IIRC, the task itself garnishes script completion or errors from an event within Event Viewer, although I could be misremembering)

Here we can work around this behaviour, since this is a plain robocopy command with no batch syntax at all, by using Create basic task without creating the batch file:

1. Open Task scheduler → Create → Create basic task
2. Name task and set description
3. Set trigger
4. Choose time
5. Action → Run a program:
   • Program/Script: C:\Windows\System32\robocopy.exe
   • Arguments:

     "C:\Source\Folder" "C:\Destination\Folder" /MOV /IS /S /R:0 /log:"C:\output.txt"
     

6. Finish

Answer 2

need some help to write an simple script.

need to trigger an proccess when cpu get below 12% and running for 5 min kill the process. any ideas

$processor = (Get-Process).CPU

$processes_to_kill = get-process Omnis* |

Where-Object {$_.$process.cpu -le 12 -and {($_.process.starttime).TotalSeconds -gt 300} }

if ($processes_to_kill -ne $null)

{

$processes_to_kill | ForEach-Object { $_.Kill() }

}