Re: Scheduled Tasks keep losing passwords

Bruce wrote:

I can not figure out when this started but my system no longer
remembers the passwords for the scheduled tasks.

I have two tasks scheduled to run nightly or weekly. One is a backup
and the other is a virus scan. If I edit the properties and put the
passwords in, the tasks run fine when manually running (rt-click,
run).

At some point (maybe after a reboot) the system starts giving error
codes instead of running..

The error log entries all look like the following:

----------------------------------------------------------------------
--------------------------------------------- "Incremental.job"
(sbestart.exe) 7/4/2007 12:45:00 AM ** ERROR ** The attempt to
retrieve account information for the specified task failed;
therefore, the task did not run. Either an error occurred, or no
account information existed for the task. The specific error is:
0x8004130f: No account information could be found in the Task
Scheduler security database for the task indicated.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
-----------------------------------------------

Any help would be appreciated.


Hi Bruce,

Do you have Service Pack 2 installed? There is a hotfix for this
problem if you do not have Service Pack 2 installed.

Task Scheduler jobs stop running in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/812960

--
William Crawford
MS-MVP Windows Shell/User
.

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