One error "Element not found" in the list of disabled tasks

[333hronos]

Hi, script works fine, although I've encountered some error, and would like to know is it ok?

Win11 24h2

How it's looks:

Here's text of the error:

TaskPath                                       TaskName                          State
--------                                       --------                          -----
\Microsoft\Windows\InstallService\             WakeUpAndContinueUpdates          Disabled
\Microsoft\Windows\InstallService\             WakeUpAndScanForUpdates           Disabled
\Microsoft\Windows\InstallService\             ScanForUpdatesAsUser              Disabled
\Microsoft\Windows\InstallService\             RestoreDevice                     Disabled
\Microsoft\Windows\InstallService\             ScanForUpdates                    Disabled
\Microsoft\Windows\InstallService\             SmartRetry                        Disabled
\Microsoft\Windows\UpdateOrchestrator\         Schedule Maintenance Work         Disabled
\Microsoft\Windows\UpdateOrchestrator\         MusUx_UpdateInterval              Disabled
\Microsoft\Windows\UpdateOrchestrator\         Report policies                   Disabled
\Microsoft\Windows\UpdateOrchestrator\         Schedule Scan                     Disabled
\Microsoft\Windows\UpdateOrchestrator\         Reboot_AC                         Disabled
\Microsoft\Windows\UpdateOrchestrator\         Schedule Scan Static Task         Disabled
\Microsoft\Windows\UpdateOrchestrator\         Reboot                            Disabled
\Microsoft\Windows\UpdateOrchestrator\         Schedule Wake To Work             Disabled
\Microsoft\Windows\UpdateOrchestrator\         Reboot_Battery                    Disabled
\Microsoft\Windows\UpdateOrchestrator\         UIEOrchestrator                   Disabled
\Microsoft\Windows\UpdateOrchestrator\         Schedule Work                     Disabled
\Microsoft\Windows\UpdateOrchestrator\         USO_UxBroker                      Disabled
\Microsoft\Windows\UpdateOrchestrator\         Start Oobe Expedite Work          Disabled
\Microsoft\Windows\UpdateOrchestrator\         USO_Broker_Display                Disabled
\Microsoft\Windows\UpdateOrchestrator\         UUS Failover Task                 Disabled
\Microsoft\Windows\UpdateOrchestrator\         StartOobeAppsScan_LicenseAccepted Disabled
Disable-ScheduledTask : Элемент не найден.
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+ ... crosoft\Windows\UpdateOrchestrator\*' | Disable-ScheduledTask; Get-Sc ...
+                                             ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
    + CategoryInfo          : ObjectNotFound: (PS_ScheduledTask:Root/Microsoft/...S_ScheduledTask) [Disable-ScheduledT
   ask], CimException
    + FullyQualifiedErrorId : HRESULT 0x80070490,Disable-ScheduledTask

\Microsoft\Windows\WaaSMedic\                  MaintenanceWork                   Disabled
\Microsoft\Windows\WaaSMedic\                  PerformRemediation                Disabled
\Microsoft\Windows\WindowsUpdate\              sihpostreboot                     Disabled
\Microsoft\Windows\WindowsUpdate\RUXIM\        PLUGScheduler                     Disabled
\Microsoft\Windows\WindowsUpdate\              Scheduled Start                   Disabled
\Microsoft\Windows\WindowsUpdate\              Refresh Group Policy Cache        Disabled



C:\Windows\System32>echo Finished
Finished

Is it ok?

[tsgrgo]

Hello! Thank you for reporting the issue!

The short answer is that it shouldn't matter, since even though there is an error, it still disables all scheduled tasks in the \Microsoft\Windows\UpdateOrchestrator\ folder. However, I fixed this yesterday on the main branch, it should no longer show this error. You can get the latest version here: https://github.com/tsgrgo/windows-update-disabler/archive/refs/heads/main.zip

I've done a bit of digging on what's going on, and it seems like this only happens on Windows 11.
Apparently, there is a scheduled task called StartOobeAppsScanAfterUpdate in the \Microsoft\Windows\UpdateOrchestrator\ folder:

As you can see on the left, if you query all tasks with the Get-ScheduledTask -TaskPath '\Microsoft\Windows\UpdateOrchestrator\*' command, it shows up in the list, however, when trying to disable this particular task, the Disable-ScheduledTask command cannot find it for some reason. Fortunately, by disabling every task in this folder, it also gets disabled somehow, so it shouldn't matter.

I'm not entirely sure why this happens, it seems as if it was a derived scheduled task that doesn't exist on its own.