# Accidentally hit on \[Schedule\] - How to delete a scheduled task?

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**Created:** [May 29, 2023, 12:10pm UTC](https://resource.dopus.com/t/accidentally-hit-on-schedule-how-to-delete-a-scheduled-task/44519 "2023-05-29T12:10:34Z")\
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When copying a file over an existing file, the existing one was in use by another application.  
I then accidentally clicked on 'Schedule' instead of cancel.  
How to delete a scheduled task.

I went over om to Task Scheduler, assuming it would be there, but regretfully could not find anything in the Task Scheduler library relating to the above task.

Thanks.

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**Author:** ![Leo](https://resource.dopus.com/user_avatar/resource.dopus.com/leo/32/69732_2.png) [@Leo](https://resource.dopus.com/u/Leo)\
**Post date:** [May 29, 2023, 12:12pm UTC](https://resource.dopus.com/t/accidentally-hit-on-schedule-how-to-delete-a-scheduled-task/44519/2 "2023-05-29T12:12:44Z")

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Scheduled copies happen on reboot.

The list of things to copy is stored in the registry, and processed very early during Windows boot-up: [Use PendingFileRenameOperations Registry to Automatically Delete or Move a File On Reboot | Q's Tech Babble](https://qtechbabble.wordpress.com/2020/06/26/use-pendingfilerenameoperations-registry-key-to-automatically-delete-a-file-on-reboot/)

(If it was done through Task Scheduler, the file could already be in use by the time the task ran.)

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**Author:** ![opw62](https://resource.dopus.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/o/5e9695/32.png) [@opw62](https://resource.dopus.com/u/opw62)\
**Post date:** [May 29, 2023, 12:49pm UTC](https://resource.dopus.com/t/accidentally-hit-on-schedule-how-to-delete-a-scheduled-task/44519/3 "2023-05-29T12:49:25Z")

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Thanks.  
I don't know where the task is stored (as said I accidently clicked on schedule, instead of abort)

Hoping I would find anything in the task scheduler as outlined on TenForums  
[https://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/173835-how-delete-scheduled-task-windows-10-a.html](https://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/173835-how-delete-scheduled-task-windows-10-a.html)

and simply delete it. Doesn't seem to work that way, there is more to it, so I let it rest.

Peforming the task will fail anyway: copying a file from an unmounted encrypted drive to an external USB drive that isn't available either.

Thanks anyway!

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