What makes a task a "Vista task or later"?

I'm trying to use the Win10 Scheduler and when I tried to put more than
one task in an Action, I get the message box "Multiple actions in a
single task are supported only on Windows Vista or later. To use
multiple actions, you must upgrade this task to a Windows Vista task or
later."

What does this mean? I'm using windows 10.

What makes a task a "Vista task or later"? (googling on this question
got many hits but none had the words grouped as they should be. I added
quotes but didn't put in the Trademark sign that's in the original
message, after Vista. )


I already had one step in the Action and was trying to add one.

The first step is RadioMaximus, 64 bit, which runs fine under win10,
though I'll admit I've only tested once but have not yet gotten it to
start automatically from the scheduler, but I've never gotten a message
about Vista or later.

The second step that I'm trying to add when I get this message is as
simple as can be. It's called C:\bat\shutdown.bat and it's only this:

echo on
Time /T
Pause [for testing only, but the words in brackets are not there]
rem #### C:\Downloads\pstools\psshutdown.exe -t 18000


In what way are these 4 lines earlier than Vista? Or not "a Vista
task or later"?

In alt.comp.os.windows-10, on Thu, 22 Feb 2018 21:47:40 -0500, micky
wrote:

I'm trying to use the Win10 Scheduler and when I tried to put more than
one task in an Action, I get the message box "Multiple actions in a
single task are supported only on Windows Vista or later. To use
multiple actions, you must upgrade this task to a Windows Vista task or
later."

What does this mean? I'm using windows 10.

Instead of googling for "vista task or later" this time I googled for
the entire error message, and only got two hits, one of which didn't
help but the second one did.

https://community.spiceworks.com/top...-r2-enterprise

Same problem I had but he managed to describe it without using "vista
task or later".

I feel stupid, again. The second reply got it right:
Randy1699
Ghost Chili
Randy1699 Feb 21, 2013 at 7:21 AM

Perhaps the pop up window is more informational than warning. If you
click off the box and click OK on the main window does the message box
pop up again? Or, does the Task Window close?


Re-reading the message I don't feel that stupid, but all I had to do was
click Okay.

The OP posted 3 hours after the good answer but appears not to have read
it yet, and he never comes back to say if it worked for him using Server
2008. But it probably did.





What makes a task a "Vista task or later"? (googling on this question
got many hits but none had the words grouped as they should be. I added
quotes but didn't put in the Trademark sign that's in the original
message, after Vista. )


I already had one step in the Action and was trying to add one.

The first step is RadioMaximus, 64 bit, which runs fine under win10,
though I'll admit I've only tested once but have not yet gotten it to
start automatically from the scheduler, but I've never gotten a message
about Vista or later.

The second step that I'm trying to add when I get this message is as
simple as can be. It's called C:\bat\shutdown.bat and it's only this:

echo on
Time /T
Pause [for testing only, but the words in brackets are not there]
rem #### C:\Downloads\pstools\psshutdown.exe -t 18000


In what way are these 4 lines earlier than Vista? Or not "a Vista
task or later"?

On 2/22/2018 10:18 PM, micky wrote:
In alt.comp.os.windows-10, on Thu, 22 Feb 2018 21:47:40 -0500, micky
wrote:

I'm trying to use the Win10 Scheduler and when I tried to put more than
one task in an Action, I get the message box "Multiple actions in a
single task are supported only on Windows Vista or later. To use
multiple actions, you must upgrade this task to a Windows Vista task or
later."

What does this mean? I'm using windows 10.

Instead of googling for "vista task or later" this time I googled for
the entire error message, and only got two hits, one of which didn't
help but the second one did.

https://community.spiceworks.com/top...-r2-enterprise

Same problem I had but he managed to describe it without using "vista
task or later".

I feel stupid, again. The second reply got it right:
Randy1699
Ghost Chili
Randy1699 Feb 21, 2013 at 7:21 AM

Perhaps the pop up window is more informational than warning. If you
click off the box and click OK on the main window does the message box
pop up again? Or, does the Task Window close?


Re-reading the message I don't feel that stupid, but all I had to do was
click Okay.

The OP posted 3 hours after the good answer but appears not to have read
it yet, and he never comes back to say if it worked for him using Server
2008. But it probably did.





What makes a task a "Vista task or later"? (googling on this question
got many hits but none had the words grouped as they should be. I added
quotes but didn't put in the Trademark sign that's in the original
message, after Vista. )


I already had one step in the Action and was trying to add one.

The first step is RadioMaximus, 64 bit, which runs fine under win10,
though I'll admit I've only tested once but have not yet gotten it to
start automatically from the scheduler, but I've never gotten a message
about Vista or later.

The second step that I'm trying to add when I get this message is as
simple as can be. It's called C:\bat\shutdown.bat and it's only this:

echo on
Time /T
Pause [for testing only, but the words in brackets are not there]
rem #### C:\Downloads\pstools\psshutdown.exe -t 18000


In what way are these 4 lines earlier than Vista? Or not "a Vista
task or later"?

Memory location handling is one change in the underlying OS that was
introduced with Vista. Prior to that, apps could make calls to specific
locations in memory to retrieve data placed there during user
operations. Vista and later OSes allocates all memory, so the apps have
to query the OS to know where to retrieve their data. This sounds like
one of those situations to me.

--
best regards,

Neil

In alt.comp.os.windows-10, on Fri, 23 Feb 2018 17:38:20 -0500, Neil
wrote:

On 2/22/2018 10:18 PM, micky wrote:
In alt.comp.os.windows-10, on Thu, 22 Feb 2018 21:47:40 -0500, micky
wrote:

I'm trying to use the Win10 Scheduler and when I tried to put more than
one task in an Action, I get the message box "Multiple actions in a
single task are supported only on Windows Vista or later. To use
multiple actions, you must upgrade this task to a Windows Vista task or
later."

What does this mean? I'm using windows 10.

Instead of googling for "vista task or later" this time I googled for
the entire error message, and only got two hits, one of which didn't
help but the second one did.

https://community.spiceworks.com/top...-r2-enterprise

Same problem I had but he managed to describe it without using "vista
task or later".

I feel stupid, again. The second reply got it right:
Randy1699
Ghost Chili
Randy1699 Feb 21, 2013 at 7:21 AM

Perhaps the pop up window is more informational than warning. If you
click off the box and click OK on the main window does the message box
pop up again? Or, does the Task Window close?


Re-reading the message I don't feel that stupid, but all I had to do was
click Okay.

The OP posted 3 hours after the good answer but appears not to have read
it yet, and he never comes back to say if it worked for him using Server
2008. But it probably did.





What makes a task a "Vista task or later"? (googling on this question
got many hits but none had the words grouped as they should be. I added
quotes but didn't put in the Trademark sign that's in the original
message, after Vista. )


I already had one step in the Action and was trying to add one.

The first step is RadioMaximus, 64 bit, which runs fine under win10,
though I'll admit I've only tested once but have not yet gotten it to
start automatically from the scheduler, but I've never gotten a message
about Vista or later.

The second step that I'm trying to add when I get this message is as
simple as can be. It's called C:\bat\shutdown.bat and it's only this:

echo on
Time /T
Pause [for testing only, but the words in brackets are not there]
rem #### C:\Downloads\pstools\psshutdown.exe -t 18000


In what way are these 4 lines earlier than Vista? Or not "a Vista
task or later"?

Memory location handling is one change in the underlying OS that was
introduced with Vista. Prior to that, apps could make calls to specific
locations in memory to retrieve data placed there during user
operations. Vista and later OSes allocates all memory, so the apps have
to query the OS to know where to retrieve their data. This sounds like
one of those situations to me.

Makes sense.

Maybe one of the two programs in the list, maybe the second one, was
written prior to Vista.

After all this I may not run them until I get back from the trip. The
burglar alarm took several hours to set up and I've run out of time.

Or maybe I'll set them to run and see if they did when I get back. I
still never got a schedule item to wake the computer from shutdown.

I checked the setting in the BIOS, in the Power Options, in the
Scheduler.