Hi All,

I need some clarification on the "When Idle" feature with Task Scheduler.
Does this simply monitor just mouse and keyboard activity? If I Schedule a
task to run after 4 hours of "When Idle", and two hours in, the Desktop
checks in with the WSUS and downloads some updates, does this constitute
activity?

Does this reset the timer? Does the "When Idle" monitor system processes?

Can anyone shed some more light on this, or even provide some links to where
the "When Idle" is broken down into what is idle and what is not

Thanks

I don't have a link but idle almost always means when there is no
keyboard/mouse activity which is also how the screen saver interprets idle.
The best way to found of for a particular situation is to always set up a
test machine to see exactly what happens. --- Steve


"Drew" <Drew@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Hi All,
>
> I need some clarification on the "When Idle" feature with Task Scheduler.
> Does this simply monitor just mouse and keyboard activity? If I Schedule a
> task to run after 4 hours of "When Idle", and two hours in, the Desktop
> checks in with the WSUS and downloads some updates, does this constitute
> activity?
>
> Does this reset the timer? Does the "When Idle" monitor system processes?
>
> Can anyone shed some more light on this, or even provide some links to
> where
> the "When Idle" is broken down into what is idle and what is not
>
> Thanks