scheduled task with null password

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Oriel

its been discussed that a scheduled task needs a password and most of
the home personal users prefer not to supply a passport on XP start.
However it seems in some way Norton netdetect is ABLE to run without
that password, how can ?
it meens a solution exists (without creating a password). what is it ?
 
It appears that the problem can be solved by changing the value of one
registry key.

This solution can be found at http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/xp_abc.htm and
going to the heading "Scheduled Tasks - Applying/Running tasks without a
password" where it says:

For Home: (Keith Miller) Go to Start/Run/Regedit and navigate to this key:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Lsa
Value name: limitblankpassworduse, Type: REG_DWORD, Data: 0 (disabled) 1
(enabled)

It's also possible to download scripts to make (and undo) this registry
change.
This can be found at:
http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/xp_tweaks.htm [see first item at line 67].

It's all of course "USE AT OUR OWN RISK". Maybe I'll try it later.
 
I tried it and it appears to have worked.

I downloaded the scripts "sthome.vbs" and "sthomeundo.vbs" from
http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/xp_tweaks.htm [line 67], and ran the first
of these to change the value of the required registry key. Scheduled tasks
now run without the need for a password. Also, the previously set tasks
from Norton AV which did work, still do work.

Before running the script, I made sure that the registry key was present and
had the (unwanted) "enabled" value. Here is the information, again:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Lsa
Value name: limitblankpassworduse, Type: REG_DWORD, Data: 0 (disabled) 1
(enabled)

Also, when I ran the script, Norton AV identified it as a malicious; but
since Norton was set to "ask me what to do", I could tell it to "run the
entire script".

Of course, anyone who's comfortable with changing registry entries manually,
doesn't have to go through all this.
 
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