help with setting Scheduled Tasks

[Aaron]

Just got a NAS tonite and I downloaded MS SyncToy. It's a cool little
program that lets me backup data to the NAS.

Anyway, I was reading in the help for the appl. and apparently you have to
go to the Scheduled Tasks in XP and set this up to run daily, weekly,
whatever. Ok, so I follow thru the setup, and it's asking me to enter in a
username and password. I have no idea what to put as I don't sign onto my
computer with any login info. I try various combo's of usernames and
passwords (even blank) and I can never get the scheduled program to run. It
says it can't run as access is denied. But I can run the program just fine
from my Start Menu.

Has anyone ever run into this? How do I get around it? I just want a silly
program to run weekly on my PC. I have no idea why I'm messing with
usernames and passwords.

Thanks!
Aaron

 

[Ayush]

Replied to [Aaron]s message :

Just got a NAS tonite and I downloaded MS SyncToy. It's a cool little
program that lets me backup data to the NAS.

Anyway, I was reading in the help for the appl. and apparently you have to
go to the Scheduled Tasks in XP and set this up to run daily, weekly,
whatever. Ok, so I follow thru the setup, and it's asking me to enter in a
username and password. I have no idea what to put as I don't sign onto my
computer with any login info.

Who setup the user accounts ? ASk Him.

Has anyone ever run into this? How do I get around it?

Make the task and ingore the username errors then open task properties and tick "Run
only when logged in" and click OK

 

[Jon]

Just got a NAS tonite and I downloaded MS SyncToy. It's a cool little
program that lets me backup data to the NAS.

Anyway, I was reading in the help for the appl. and apparently you have to
go to the Scheduled Tasks in XP and set this up to run daily, weekly,
whatever. Ok, so I follow thru the setup, and it's asking me to enter in a
username and password. I have no idea what to put as I don't sign onto my
computer with any login info. I try various combo's of usernames and
passwords (even blank) and I can never get the scheduled program to run.
It says it can't run as access is denied. But I can run the program just
fine from my Start Menu.

Has anyone ever run into this? How do I get around it? I just want a silly
program to run weekly on my PC. I have no idea why I'm messing with
usernames and passwords.

Thanks!
Aaron

Yeah, you'll need to set up a password for your account to be able to
schedule the task. It's one of the little peculiarities of the Task
Scheduler.