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Hi there All,
I am unsuccessfully trying to schedule tasks on my xp pc.
Unsuccessfull in that I have the only account- administrator
Unsuccessfull in that the set time comes and the most simple open an application dosen`t happen

thanks
Jemma

You need to create a user account and the scheduled task requires the username and password specified for the created user account. So what you should do is create a new account with limited privileges, but with enough to run the task in question and schedule the task to run under that account. You will need a password because scheduled tasks running under an account without a password doesn`t work.

I am not sure if it works for an admin account. You can try it if you set a password for the admin account.

This item was edited on Monday, 29th May 2006, 23:00

Will work if there`s a password for the admin account.

Major design flaw if you ask me though.

Why is it a design flaw?

doesn`t allow him to setup a regular scheduled spam dump without knowing your password first :D

Well, paradoxically, you are correct Cynic but I cannot understand for what other reasons that Microsoft has implemented a design flaw when the whole idea was designed to prevent users gain easy access to other users` accounts on the PC and set up a scheduled task to perform some destructive function.