Re: Scheduling Tasks in Windows XP Professional with a no password acc

DBost wrote:
Recently I received a new PC with Windows XP Professional to replace
an existing leased PC with Windows 2000. This PC runs a scheduled
task once per day to activate a batch file to copy data over from
another network PC.
The user account for operations does not require a password. As far
as I can tell, Windows XP requires a password to schedule a task
(null for password does not work). So, to get around this little
Windows issue, I created a new administrative account w/ pw and under
the user account, I scheduled the task with "Run as" the
administrative account. The scheduled task worked, calling the batch
file. However, the batch file did not complete (probably because the
batch file has a mapped drive - mapped identically for both accounts,
but when not logged onto the admin account the drive is disconnected).
So, if I am logged onto the admin account the batch file runs
correctly. If I am logged onto the user account the batch file will
not complete. I would prefer to only have one account - the user
account with no password.
Does anyone see a way around either the scheduling issue or the
mapped drive issue? Thanks in advance.

I thought SP2 fixed the "password required to run scheduled task" business.

Here are some references:

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;310715

How to fix can be found at:
http://groups.google.com/group/microsoft.public.windowsxp.help_and_support/browse_frm/thread/cb92d9af83625f30/2878913d5f1f7d3f?lnk=st&q=microsoft+password+scheduled+task&rnum=2#2878913d5f1f7d3f


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