task scheduler stopped working-help!

[psideburns]

My scheduled tasks all stopped working last week. I can
run them manually from sched. tasks but they wont run on
their own.

 

[Kenny M]

XP Home or XP Professional?
What Antivirus program are you using?
In what manner did your Scheduled Tasks stop working?

a) With messages in the Log? If so, please post message #s and text.
b) With no messages in the Log.

The Scheduled Tasks Log is visible by:

Start > Control Panel > Performance & Maintenance > Scheduled Tasks >
Advanced > View Log

If the latter, try this for temporary relief:

Start > Control Panel > Performance & Maintenance > Scheduled Tasks >
Advanced > Stop Using Task Scheduler, followed by Start Using Task
Scheduler.

Please post results back to this thread.

 

[Guest]

-----Original Message-----
XP Home or XP Professional?
What Antivirus program are you using?
In what manner did your Scheduled Tasks stop working?

a) With messages in the Log? If so, please post message #s and text.
b) With no messages in the Log.

The Scheduled Tasks Log is visible by:

Start > Control Panel > Performance & Maintenance > Scheduled Tasks >
Advanced > View Log

If the latter, try this for temporary relief:

Start > Control Panel > Performance & Maintenance > Scheduled Tasks >
Advanced > Stop Using Task Scheduler, followed by Start Using Task
Scheduler.

Please post results back to this thread.



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Using: XP Home.

Norton Internet Security.

Tasks just stopped- no messages in the log, it's as if
they never existed.

Tried to restart in task scheduler and services- nothing.

Have heard of conflict with symantec netdetect on 5 min
schedule- any thoughts?

 

[Kenny M]

I have the same symptoms on my HP t240a XP Home + NIS 2004 system.

Try this experiment:

1) Re-boot, leave Welcome screen showing for > 5 minutes, logon, NO
Scheduled Tasks will run at the appointed times (except for the one
NetDetect at user logon, but not the every 5 min. runs).

2) Re-boot, logon as soon as you see the Welcome screen, ALL Scheduled Tasks
will run at the appointed times.

But I can correct case (1) by Stop+Start of the Task Scheduler either via
Services or via Task Scheduler Advanced (BTW, they do slightly different
things).

I don't know whether this is a Task Scheduler or NetDetect problem.

 

[psideburns]

-----Original Message-----
I have the same symptoms on my HP t240a XP Home + NIS 2004 system.

Try this experiment:

1) Re-boot, leave Welcome screen showing for > 5 minutes, logon, NO
Scheduled Tasks will run at the appointed times (except for the one
NetDetect at user logon, but not the every 5 min. runs).

2) Re-boot, logon as soon as you see the Welcome screen, ALL Scheduled Tasks
will run at the appointed times.

But I can correct case (1) by Stop+Start of the Task Scheduler either via
Services or via Task Scheduler Advanced (BTW, they do slightly different
things).

I don't know whether this is a Task Scheduler or NetDetect problem.



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I simply stopped then restarted symantec netdetect from
task scheduler- all is well. Have read that if by chance
netdetect and another task try to start at the same time
then conflict occurs. Quite random- my system has run
for 2+ years without showing this. My numbers were up I
guess. Thanks for your input Kenny- hope my fix helps.