Task Scheduler - does not seem to run tasks

[Greg Christensen]

I have a Win 2000 server on which I want to automate
tasks. The scheduler seems to operate correctly except
that the tasks do not appear to run. The scheduler shows
them as running, but the applications never launch. I have
tried testing with a simple application, such as
calculator.exe, with the same results. Right-clicking on
the task and selecting RUN provides the same results. It
seems to work fine on other servers.

Other than reinstalling the OS, which I would rather not
do, are there any probably solutions?

Thanks

 

[Pegasus \(MVP\)]

I have a Win 2000 server on which I want to automate
tasks. The scheduler seems to operate correctly except
that the tasks do not appear to run. The scheduler shows
them as running, but the applications never launch. I have
tried testing with a simple application, such as
calculator.exe, with the same results. Right-clicking on
the task and selecting RUN provides the same results. It
seems to work fine on other servers.

Other than reinstalling the OS, which I would rather not
do, are there any probably solutions?

Thanks

Testing the Task Scheduler with calc.exe is not very
productive - it never leaves a trace! Try scheduling this
batch file instead:

@echo off
echo This task ran on %date% at %time% >c:\test.log

and examine the contents of c:\test.log