Task Scheduler Service Reports Missing Task

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ghamlin

I have a Windows 2000 SP4 system that on Boot tells me via a Task Scheduler
Service pop up! that "Some tasks did not execute at their scheduled times
because the Task Scheduler Service was not running. You can view the list
of missed tasks, and attemtp to run them again, from within the Scheduler
Tasks Folder".

All fine and good but I don't have any scheduled tasks in my "Scheduler
Tasks Folder". Any suggestions where I might go to investigate and or
clean house?
 
T

tlviewer

ghamlin said:
I have a Windows 2000 SP4 system that on Boot tells me via a Task Scheduler
Service pop up! that "Some tasks did not execute at their scheduled times
because the Task Scheduler Service was not running. You can view the list
of missed tasks, and attemtp to run them again, from within the Scheduler
Tasks Folder".

All fine and good but I don't have any scheduled tasks in my "Scheduler
Tasks Folder". Any suggestions where I might go to investigate and or
clean house?

By chance, there may be some hidden jobs. You can check for those
via a command prompt.

cd\winnt\tasks
dir

A hidden job wouldn't show in the MsTask GUI.
 
G

ghamlin

"tlviewer" Nail it! Wrote - there may be some hidden jobs. You can check
for those via a command prompt. cd\winnt\tasks dir A hidden job
wouldn't show in the MsTask GUI.

The "additional" trick was the jobs that were inside cd\winnt\tasks folder
were HIDDEN files. Using dir/ah I could see two jobs named in the format
<large registry entry> name.job

I deleted the two .job files and problem went away. There were also two
other files something.ini and sd.dat which I left alone.
Thank you tlviewer
 

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