Scheduled Task

[Terry Pinnell]

I'm having various problems with setting up scheduled tasks on my new
XP Pro PC, but I'll keep them to individual posts,

One quirk that puzzles me is this r-click option to 'End Task'. It's
greyed out for all but one of my tasks. That simply runs Firefox with
a link to a weather forecast. But it has RUN permanently greyed. If I
use End Task, that closes Firefox itself (badly, leaving it in Task
Mgr).

Yet for a similar task, to visit BBC News, the 'End Task' command
remains greyed at all times. That's what I'd expect, as the task is
just equivalent to clicking a URL. So the concept of 'ending' that
doesn't make sense.

Anyone have any thoughts/insights please?

 

[Terry Pinnell]

I'm having various problems with setting up scheduled tasks on my new
XP Pro PC, but I'll keep them to individual posts,

One quirk that puzzles me is this r-click option to 'End Task'. It's
greyed out for all but one of my tasks. That simply runs Firefox with
a link to a weather forecast. But it has RUN permanently greyed. If I
use End Task, that closes Firefox itself (badly, leaving it in Task
Mgr).

Yet for a similar task, to visit BBC News, the 'End Task' command
remains greyed at all times. That's what I'd expect, as the task is
just equivalent to clicking a URL. So the concept of 'ending' that
doesn't make sense.

Anyone have any thoughts/insights please?

I reckon I may have found the solution a few minutes later. Seems that
this particular site needs javascript enabled, and I had blocked it
using a Firefox extension called NoScript. I'd already unblocked it
for the BBC site. So presumably XP detected that this task hadn't been
'terminated' properly?