How to run a task triggered by an event only once

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You might want to start or stop a task when a particular event is logged. For instance start a service or stop tracing. You can use the the Attach a Task To the Log option in the Event Viewer

The Attach a Task if found here

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For example

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Therefore you can create a simple batch file like this:

net stop spooler

pause

And add the batch here

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After you have finished the wizard, you will find in the task scheduler the following task

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You can here change the task here to your own needs, in this example I add event 222 as trigger

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Now if event 222 is logged in the application log, the printer spooler is stopped

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But now, if you want to run this only once, only the first 222 event and not the ones coming after? Simply add the following line to your batch file

net stop spooler

schtasks /Change /TN "\Event Viewer Tasks\Stop Printer Spooler" /DISABLE

pause

This will disable the task

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Which you can see here

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Hope this is helpful!

 

 

Credits for Dirk van Coeverden and Nicolas Uthurriague