Windows 11 24H2 automatic functions via Task scheduler not working correctly

Chris Byrd 45 Reputation points
2025-12-18T13:35:11.3566667+00:00

After windows update, which I think was the Defender update, some scheduled tasks stopped working correctly while others are unaffected by the update. The biggest issue caused by this update that was automatically pushed to my system was a Daily reboot task that worked flawlessly for years, and now only works after a manual reboot, and then only works for a while before the error comes back. The error is not showing as an error as far as I know, but after Windows has run on my PC for a while, if I try to manually reboot or use the task to reboot, the Del login screen comes up with the cursor spinning below it. This screen will stay just like that, with the spinning cursor, for days if I allow it to continue. When this happens, only pushing and holding the power button till PC turns off and then pushing the power button to turn it back on works to reboot the PC. Other issues are that some tasks will automatically disable themselves and will stay disabled unless I enable them. and OneDrive doesn't automatically load. I thought it was that the patch corrupted files, so I reloaded Windows using the ISO file, and only 25H was available via the website, so I upgraded to 25H2, and installed 25H2 from the ISO file. You think that would have fixed the issue, but it didn't, and even more error occured with Widgets not working. I uninstalled the latest feature, and that got me back to 24H2, but I still had the same old problem I had before. I remembered that there were SFC and DISM embedded tools that I could try, and I ran all of them in the order recommended, and they found some errors, just not the ones that were causing my errors, and fixed them. So I ran chkdsk with the recommended tags to fix any errors it detected, and then ran SFC and DISM again, which ran without errors but didn't fix my issues either. Whatever is causing the errors is not loaded at first, because after I restart my PC for a while, the tasks are ready, and during that time, I can run the reboot task, and my PC reboots just like it used to. Wait a few hours and try to run it, and I have to turn the power off and on to get my PC to reboot. Now, as far as the task that disables itself after I activate it, they stay activated for the rest of the day. So whatever is causing them to disable in the first place is a one-time thing that after it occurs it doesn't occur again until after a reboot. Windows itself is running fine, and all the tasks run fine as far as I can tell, but the ones that are disabling themselves are not just created by the software I installed, but also some were added automatically by Microsoft, so I am not sure what they do. My OneDrive seems to have a mind of its own and will sometimes load as it is supposed to, and other time will not load and I have to manually open it to get it to load. Any help resolving this issue would be appreciated.

Windows for home | Windows 11 | Windows update
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