Shortcut to scheduled task wont work

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Jolly Polly

I'm trying to get a program to 'run as administrator' via a scheduled
task and a shorcut on my desktop.

I've created the scheduled task, and this runs OK from the Task Scheduler.

Now I want a shortcut on my desktop to run the task, so I've created a
shortcut with the target as 'C:\Windows\System32\schtasks.exe /run /tn
“TASKNAMEhere”'
but I get this error:
ERROR: The system cannot find the file specified.

any ideas how I can resolve this problem please?
 
Jolly Polly said:
I'm trying to get a program to 'run as administrator' via a scheduled
task and a shorcut on my desktop.

I've created the scheduled task, and this runs OK from the Task Scheduler.

Now I want a shortcut on my desktop to run the task, so I've created a
shortcut with the target as 'C:\Windows\System32\schtasks.exe /run /tn
“TASKNAMEhere”'
but I get this error:
ERROR: The system cannot find the file specified.

any ideas how I can resolve this problem please?
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For the task "name" you have to give the full path to the task ie including
task scheduler folders. You can get this with the help of

schtasks /query

Example ....

C:\Windows\System32\schtasks.exe /run /tn "\MyTaskSchedulerFolder\Task1"
 
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