Task Scheduler stopped running and I'm unable to restart

[Guest]

About 2 weeks ago the Windows Task Scheduler stopped running on my machine.
I've down everything that I can think of to restart it. Microsoft Knowledge
Base postings indicate that I install the latest Service Pack, which I have
done. Specifically, I get "Error 5: Access is denied." when I try to
manually start the scheduler. It is set to automatically restart when the
system boots up but fails to do so. I'd appreciate any help that I can get
with this. I'm running Windows XP Professional with Service Pack 2.

 

[Steven L Umbach]

Make sure you are logged an as an administrator account. If that is not the
problem see the link below on how to set security settings to default
defined levels to see if that helps. You can use the /areas services to
reset only services. You also could try System Restore if you have a restore
point before the problem began. Go to accessories/system/system restore to
start the wizard for that. I would also scan your computer for malware and
spyware with the latest definitions for whatever you use as it may be
possible that some malicious program modified your service as it is often
used for antivirus programs to schedule scans.

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;313222
http://www.microsoft.com/athome/security/protect/ -- Protect Your PC tips

 

[Guest]

Steven --

Thanks for taking the time to respond to my post. I found the answer to my
problem in the archives of this discussion group. The solution to the
problem was to delete all the jobs that I had scheduled to run and then
restart the Task Scheduler. Apparently, the source of the problem was that
one of the files that one of the jobs was logging to had become corrupted or
deleted and the job was unable to write to the file. After deleting all the
jobs, restarting Task Scheduler and recreating the jobs, everything is now
fine.

 

[Steven L Umbach]

Excellent. Glad you got it resolved and thanks for reporting back what the
solution was. I will have to remember that one.

Steve