Follow Up to Error Scheduling Tasks

[HankL]

My wife and I are the only persons using this computer. I am the
Adminsitrator.
I never entered a password in the User when I originally setup the computer.
It boots up entirely without asking for a User Name or Password.

I have put in other Scheduled Tasks in the past with a particular password
and it always worked. I understand after a period of time, Windows no
longer recognizes a password.

Is there any other way you could suggest to find the password I used in
Scheduled Task and change the existing password if there is one?

HankL
----- Original Message -----
From: "Patrick Keenan" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Sent: Wednesday, July 02, 2008 12:52 PM
Subject: Re: Error Scheduling Tasks

 

[sgopus]

Windows defaults to password expires, IF you actually enter a password, if
you have never done that, on your user account only, then there shouldn't be
a expire period.

someone has to have entered a password on scheduling tasks, else it wouldn't
be asking for one. how bout this delete the scheduled task and that should
take care of the problem

 

[Pegasus \(MVP\)]

Just because your PC boots up without a password challenge
does not mean that it uses a blank password. The password
might be supplied by an automatic mechanism.

Instead of worrying about an unknown password used for
scheduled tasks, why not resolve the issue simply and permanently?
Create a dedicated account to be used for all scheduled tasks,
give it administrative privileges and keep a reliable record of
the password you used! Problem solved, end of story!