Scheduled tasks mess

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I have a PC running XP Home SP2. I have tried, and tried, and tried to
get the Scheduled Tasks program to work, but get nothing but error messages.
Among them: scheduled tasks xp 0x80041310 unable to establish existence of
the account specified. Did some research, but the advice offered only
resulted in a different error message. Is this a problem for many XP users?
 
History said:
I have a PC running XP Home SP2. I have tried, and tried, and
tried to get the Scheduled Tasks program to work, but get nothing but
error messages. Among them: scheduled tasks xp 0x80041310 unable to
establish existence of the account specified. Did some research, but
the advice offered only resulted in a different error message. Is
this a problem for many XP users?
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Check these links for help with this problem.

Scheduled Tasks Cannot Run with a Blank Password
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/310715

Visit http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/xp_s.htm and scroll down to:

"Scheduled Tasks - Applying/Running tasks without a password"
[Courtesy of Kelly Theriot, MS-MVP]

HOW TO: Schedule Tasks in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/308569

HOW TO: Troubleshoot Scheduled Tasks in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/308558
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Having no password appears to be the main problem with the Scheduled
Tasks error messages. So I added one, and now Disk Cleanup does run at the
scheduled time. Only problem is that Disk Cleanup doesn't automatically
delete the unnecessary files. It calculates what can be deleted but then
waits for me to click the OK button. That's not what I had intended. I
want Disk Cleanup to do that automatically on it's own without any
intervention from me.
 
Thanks for the link. I've seen that page before, but the instructions
are a bit too complicated for my poor wretched brain. I'll just stick to
doing Disk Cleanup manually. No big deal.
 
Please note, the tweak on Kelly's site, to not require a password for Scheduled Tasks opens the computer up to outside attack. Particularly if the Administrator account has a blank password. Any outside attack that successfully authenticates as a user, with no password, can do anything the user can do.

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Ronnie Vernon MVP said:
History said:
I have a PC running XP Home SP2. I have tried, and tried, and
tried to get the Scheduled Tasks program to work, but get nothing but
error messages. Among them: scheduled tasks xp 0x80041310 unable to
establish existence of the account specified. Did some research, but
the advice offered only resulted in a different error message. Is
this a problem for many XP users?
Click to expand...

Check these links for help with this problem.

Scheduled Tasks Cannot Run with a Blank Password
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/310715

Visit http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/xp_s.htm and scroll down to:

"Scheduled Tasks - Applying/Running tasks without a password"
[Courtesy of Kelly Theriot, MS-MVP]

HOW TO: Schedule Tasks in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/308569

HOW TO: Troubleshoot Scheduled Tasks in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/308558
--

Ronnie Vernon
Microsoft MVP
Windows Shell/User

In memory of our dear friend, MVP Alex Nichol
http://www.dts-l.org/
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Try Disk Cleaner.

I have Disk Cleaner set to run quiet at startup. Runs for 5 seconds or so
and exits. I also like the fact that, after you set it up, it cleans all
the following with one click (and/or automatically at boot). Makes XP's
Disk Cleanup look like a piker. XP's Disk Cleanup will *not* clean
Content.IE5.

Disk Cleaner will Clean:
Temporary Internet Files {Including the contents of the Content.IE5 folder}
Internet Cookies
Internet History
System Temporary Folder
Recent Documents
Run... Dialog List
Find Document List
Find Computer List
URLs in IE Address Bar
URLs in Shell Address Bar
Media Player Recent URLs
WinZip Recent Files
WinZip Extract To Folders
Paint Recent Files
WordPad Recent Files
Cleans Recycle Bin (what else?)
Opera Cache
Opera Cookies
Opera History
Opera Visited links
Opera Download History and Download folder
Firefox Cache
Firefox Cookies
Firefox History

Disk Cleaner
http://www.xs4all.nl/~mp2004/

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Hope this helps. Let us know.

Wes
MS-MVP Windows Shell/User

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