Re: Scheduled Tasks keep losing passwords

Bruce wrote:

On Fri, 06 Jul 2007 11:53:43 -0700, "WTC"
<bcrawfordjr(remove)@hotmail.com> wrote:

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

I did see that hotfix when I was trying to solve the problem.
Unfortunately, I have MCE Service Pack 2. So I assumed I should not
run it.

The problem seems to have started in Early June based upon my backup
logs.

Hi Bruce,

I have seem some fixes where you would delete all schedule tasks and
reboot. Then recreate your scheduled tasks to fix the task scheduler
database corruption.

Here is one exmaple:
http://forumz.tomshardware.com/software/Task-scheduler-run-ftopict169449
..html

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

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