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can't get scheduled task to run Mcafee virus scan at scheduled time. went to
trouble shooting,tried every thing,nothing worked,anyone out there having
same problem? could use some help! tried uninstalling mcafee and
reinstalling,I don't seem to have a problem running other tasks.
 
Hi,

Every anti virus scanner will have its own scheduler to run a full scan at a
specified date and time and is customizable. you can use that instead of
using scheduler.

Regards
M. Rajesh
..Net and Windows Shell MVP
www.winxpsolution.com.
 
thank you for your help, it still doesn't tell me why I can't get it to run
with scheduled tasks. best regards Jim
 
Thanks for your help,instructions at site were for something other than my
version of xp,can't get there from here,but I'll get it figured out thanks
again. Have a great day! Best regards,Jim
 
Jim said:
can't get scheduled task to run Mcafee virus scan at scheduled time.
went to trouble shooting,tried every thing,nothing worked,anyone out
there having same problem? could use some help! tried uninstalling
mcafee and reinstalling,I don't seem to have a problem running other
tasks.
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Task Scheduler Does Not Run Tasks When "Run As" User Account Has No
Password
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=311119

Scheduled tasks may not run in Microsoft Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=329769

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

Scheduled tasks do not run after you install Windows XP Service Pack 1
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=832585

Tasks May Not Run If a User Has Changed the Account Name
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=303014

There are many more KB articles at http://support.microsoft.com/ but you
can search for those yourself. You never mentioned the status shown for
an event that failed to executed or what entries were in the logfile to
indicate what happened at the time the event was scheduled.
 
Thank you for your time spent on this,read those articles and many more.there
is nothing in status colume,log just states the program failed to run,no
error message.Thanks again!best regards,Jim
 
Jim said:
Thank you for your time spent on this,read those articles and many
more.there is nothing in status colume,log just states the program
failed to run,no error message.Thanks again!best regards,Jim
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Was this an event that McAfee added when you had it schedule a scan, or
is this an event that you defined independently of McAfee? If you
define the event, I wonder if you are selecting the wrong file for the
command to run. Maybe you are picking the wrong file to run or
specifying the wrong command-line parameters.
http://ts.mcafeehelp.com/displaydoc.asp?docid=401&CategoryId=243 shows
some help on the command line to run a scan.
 
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