RE: Task Scheduler - general page initialization failed

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Hi,

first, please check if the following article applies to your issue:

"The attempt to retrieve account information for the specified task failed"
error message when you use Task Scheduler to schedule volume shadow copy to
run in Windows Server 2003
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=822904

If it doesn't apply, I have following suggestions:

Suggestoin 1:
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remove the problematic computer from domain and create a new local user
account to see the result.

Create another new user profile to test
1. Log on as the Administrator or as a user with administrator credentials.
2. Click Start, and then click Control Panel.
3. Click User Accounts.
4. Click the Advanced tab, and then click Advanced.
5. In the left pane, click the Users folder.
6. On the Action menu, click New User.
7. Enter the appropriate user information, and then click Create.
8. Logon with the new user account to see if the issue occurs in the user
profile.

Suggestion 2:
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We may use Clean Boot to eliminate third party interference. To boot into
Clean Boot environment:

1. Click Start, click Run, type "msconfig" (without the quotation marks) in
the Open box, and then click OK.
2. In the Startup tab, click the "Disable All" button.
3. In the Services tab, check the "Hide All Microsoft Services" checkbox,
and then click the "Disable All" button.
4. Click OK and restart your computer.

310560: How to troubleshoot by using the System Configuration utility in
Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/310560

Hope this helps.

Best regards,

Vincent Xu
Microsoft Online Partner Support

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We're having problems with the Task Scheduler on several computers in our
domain. Whenever I try to bring up the properties on a task that's been
configured to run under the NT AUTHORITY\System account, I get the
following
error:

General page initialization failed.
The specific error is:
0x8007000d: The data is invalid.
An error has occurred attempting to retrieve task information. You may
continue editing the task object, but will be unable to change task
account information.

On computers with this problem, tasks with this error do not run; the
Tasks
window lists the Status as "Could not start."

I confirmed that the Task Scheduler service is running under the System
account and has permission to interact with the desktop. I tried deleting
the
tasks, rebooting, and recreating them, as a couple of sites suggested. I
tried creating tasks through both the GUI and the schtasks command.
Nothing
seems to help.

Tasks that are configured to run under other accounts work.

Any suggestions? These tasks are created by a GPO-assigned startup
script,
if that makes any difference.

Josh Kelley


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