Configure required folders for Auto Upload and Scheduled Tasks
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Overview
In order for newer versions of windows to run excel spreadsheets as a scheduled task, some folders must exist.
The default windows setup may not have created them. While these folders do not need to contain anything, they are required by Excel somehow in order to launch correctly. If they are missing, it is possible that the scheduled task will launch but excel will not run any code or macros (e.g. you will see excel.exe in the task manager but it will be using 0% CPU).
This folder is required for Microsoft Excel 32-bit.
C:\Windows\System32\config\systemprofile\Desktop
This folder is required for Microsoft Excel 64-bit.
C:\Windows\SysWOW64\config\systemprofile\Desktop
Notes
- As stated before, they do not need to contain anything but they must be present.