Problem using Task Scheduler API

From: Greg Kowalski (gkowalski_at_veriteq.com)
Date: 05/20/04 

Date: Thu, 20 May 2004 18:43:11 GMT

Hello,

I wrote an MFC wrapper class for the Task Scheduler COM API and I'm using it
in my application to add/remove/modify scheduled tasks. This is my problem:
on some computers (in particular a Toshiba laptop running Windows XP) the
scheduled tasks don't start correctly when they are scheduled to run as the
Local System account. What happens is that the process is started but then
without executing any user code, it exits. The task scheduler reports that
the task ran correctly and the task scheduler log file shows that it started
and exited the same second (this behaviour is incorrect). To add another
twist, if you restart the Task Scheduler service, everything starts working
fine.

I've tested this application on 15 different machines (including 5 XP
machines) and the Toshiba laptop is the only one experiencing this error.

Any ideas, thoughts, or comments are appreciated.

Greg

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