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Powershell ps1 script is showing in Task Manager in startup but not running

I have following Powershell script file sumdigits.ps1 which outputs number to a log file every 10 seconds. The scripts work properly when executed manually. Execution Policy is set to RemoteSigned.

$logfile = "C:\Users/username/logger.log"

Function Log {
    [CmdletBinding()]
    Param(
    [Parameter(Mandatory=$True)]
    [string]
    $Message
    )

    $Stamp = (Get-Date).toString("yyyy/MM/dd HH:mm:ss.fff")
    $Line = "$Stamp $Message"
    Add-Content $logfile -Value $Line
}

$i=0

while($true)
{
    $i++
    Log “We have counted up to $i”
    Start-Sleep -s 10
}

I have added it to Startup folder and its showing in task manager as follows. So it seems its getting executed at startup.

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However, when I see log file, nothing is getting written to that. Is the script not actually running or it got some error? How to find the error in latter case?

Solution

  • The issue was that ps1 file was getting opened in notepad instead of getting executed. To resolve this, I created batch file to launch powershell script.