> Had very similar experience recently.... created a task, went back into task manager and couldn't find a trace of it, after some experimenting I found the following;
> If you create a task while the "Task scheduler (local)" node is selected / highlighted in the left navigation, it appears that the task will disappear into a black hole.
> If instead you make sure you select/highlight the "Task Scheduler Library" node, and then create the task, it will show up and be stored in C:\Windows\System32\Tasks and stick.
I figured it out. :D This solution satisfies all of my requirements and meets all of my goals, perfectly. Performance isn't too bad, either, considering the level of indirection that is necessary to achieve this.
The general approach is thus:
Set up a local Certificate Authority (CA), and gene...
