How to run a desktop flow from windows task scheduler

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My Objective is to run the flow once when pc starts between 8 am till 10 am each day using the windows task scheduler.

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miketran13 720 on at

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Hello,

Unfortunately, there is no way for you to do that and I don't think Microsoft will support this in the future. Because you have to use Power Automate on Cloud as the orchestrator for triggering manually or schedule it from there. You can't do that from a task scheduler.

Thanks and hope it can help you.
Mike
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maciejewski 27 on at

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HI
Without offline scheduler/executor PAD is not usable for now.

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Hi,

Why don't you use Schedule Flows to run your Desktop flows ?

Thanks and hope it can help you.
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maciejewski 27 on at

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thanks for suggestion but we need it to can run offline - like in WinAutomation

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HI @maciejewski ,

I've been looking into this too. Unfortunately this is not possible at the moment and it is unclear if it ever will be. When you run the PAD from your PC, it calls an instance to run from the Cloud.

The following command is called:
"C:\Program Files (x86)\Power Automate Desktop\PAD.Runtime.Robot.exe" --path "C:\Users\[**UserName**]\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Power Automate Desktop\Console\Workspace\829e4538-9631-4e12-a2c4-187299a15ae7\package" --instanceId 4ec585ad1a69462a9818e4648f32ca13 --varPreviewChars 128 --varPreviewLines 5

This includes the GUID for your PAD and an instanceId. Whilst the GUID for your PAD matches with that of the cloud, I couldn't establish how the InstanceId was obtained which must be some sort of authentication to run the flow.

It's quite interesting because you can see all of your solutions here:
C:\Users\[**UserName**]\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Power Automate Desktop\Console\Workspace\

For now at least - it is not possible.

Damien

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DamoBird365 8,942 Microsoft Employee on at

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Hi @Tawfik_Chelli , @maciejewski , @miketran13

I've posted the idea here.

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maciejewski 27 on at

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thanks for information Damien

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for now we stick with WinAutomation

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DamoBird365 8,942 Microsoft Employee on at

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@maciejewski - sorted cheers.

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This doesn't work for personal accounts.

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pcand1001 65 on at

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Try API commands

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