Run schtasks.exe with PowerShell command from command prompt

Question

I want to run the schtasks.exe as administrator using PowerShell -Command with Start-Process to create a task. This is the code of my .bat file I've got so far.

 set mydir=%~dp0
 set mydir2=%mydir%prim.exe
 set mys='`"C:\workspace\prim.exe`"'
 Powershell -Command "&{Start-Process -FilePath schtasks -ArgumentList '/Create', '/SC ONLOGON', '/TN CoUpdater', '/IT', '/RL HIGHEST', '/TR', '\"%mydir2%\"' -verb RunAs}"

At first I set up my path to the program I want to run. The problem is that my path name contains some white spaces. After some research I was able to determine that the path is in the task scheduler but without quotes (argument after /TR ):

The next thing I did was adding of quotes to a string and put it as the argument after /TR

set mys='`"C:\workspace\prim.exe`"'

which results in:

But now I don't know how I should add the quotes to my pathname. I hope anybody can help me with this problem. Thank you!

Maximilian Burszley · Answer 1 · 2018-07-06T19:10:14.873

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Using a call operator is unnecessary, here's a way that should work:

SET "PRIM=""%~dp0prim.exe"""
powershell -Command "Start-Process -FilePath schtasks -ArgumentList '/Create','/SC','ONLOGON','/TN','CoUpdater','/IT','/RL','HIGHEST','/TR','%PRIM%' -Verb runas"

Note I embedded the quotes into the environment variable. As long as there are matching sets of quotes, the cmd parser shouldn't complain.

edited Jul 06 '18 at 19:10

answered Jul 06 '18 at 17:24

Maximilian Burszley

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Thank you very much for responding that fast. Unfortunately it doesn't work. – Felix Jul 06 '18 at 18:17
I get following error: unvalid argument/option with the part of my pathname at wich the first white space occurs – Felix Jul 06 '18 at 18:20
@Felix Did you copy/paste it verbatim because it worked when I tested it? – Maximilian Burszley Jul 06 '18 at 18:48
@Felix [Probably because I embedded them incorrectly](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/562038/escaping-double-quotes-in-batch-script). Updated. – Maximilian Burszley Jul 06 '18 at 19:10
ok now it works, but I am still missing the quotation marks as the first space is interpreted as the argument of the program... How can I fix that? – Felix Jul 06 '18 at 22:06
What I need is that the path to the executing program is in quotes like this: "C:\Users\workspace 18\prim.exe" – Felix Jul 06 '18 at 22:13

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Jul 06 '18 at 23:20

By try and error I found a solution:

set mys='`\"C:\works pace\prim.exe`\"'
Powershell -Command "Start-Process -FilePath schtasks -ArgumentList '/Create', '/SC ONLOGON', '/TN CoUpdater', '/IT', '/RL HIGHEST', '/TR', \"%mys%\" -verb RunAs"

This worked for me and in the task scheduler it is displayed correctly:

Run schtasks.exe with PowerShell command from command prompt

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