Task Scheduler

W

Willy

I've got Win XP Pro with SP2 installed and Firewall off as I've a 3rd party
firewall. Here is an error I received when attempting to set up a new Task:
---------------------------------------------------------------
Task Scheduler
An error has occurred while attempting to set task account information.
The specific error is:
0x80070005: Access Denied.
You do not have permission to perform the requested operation
OK
---------------------------------------------------------------
I'm the only user of this PC but seems I am not allowed to do some things.
On occasion I get messages to "Contact Administrator". This is a home PC
used only by me.
Any help or suggestions?
Thanks and reply to this Newsgroup,
Bill
 
D

Dave Patrick

This article may help.

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;303014

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Regards,

Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup.
Microsoft Certified Professional
Microsoft MVP [Windows]
http://www.microsoft.com/protect

:
| I've got Win XP Pro with SP2 installed and Firewall off as I've a 3rd
party
| firewall. Here is an error I received when attempting to set up a new
Task:
| ---------------------------------------------------------------
| Task Scheduler
| An error has occurred while attempting to set task account information.
| The specific error is:
| 0x80070005: Access Denied.
| You do not have permission to perform the requested operation
| OK
| ---------------------------------------------------------------
| I'm the only user of this PC but seems I am not allowed to do some things.
| On occasion I get messages to "Contact Administrator". This is a home PC
| used only by me.
| Any help or suggestions?
| Thanks and reply to this Newsgroup,
| Bill
|
|
 
D

Dave Patrick

Logged on as local administrator?

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Regards,

Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup.
Microsoft Certified Professional
Microsoft MVP [Windows]
http://www.microsoft.com/protect

:
| Dave,
| Thanks for your reply but this KB doesn't exactly apply.
| --
| Thanks.....Bill
| Please reply to the Newsgroup ONLY
|
|
 
D

Dave Patrick

Hold the shift key while logging off. You'll then be presented with the
logon box where you can input administrator as username and use the password
you chose at the time of the install (possibly blank)

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Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup.
Microsoft Certified Professional
Microsoft MVP [Windows]
http://www.microsoft.com/protect

:
| I'm only user logged on as "BILL", how do I log on as local administrator?
| --
| Thanks.....Bill
| Please reply to the Newsgroup ONLY
|
|
 
W

Willy

Dave,
I did that & all it popped up was, Switch User & Logoff. I clicked User
Accounts in the Control Panel & it only shows 2 Accounts:

Bill
Computer Administrator

Guest
Guest account is off

Now what? Appears I'm already logged on as Administrator?
 
D

Dave Patrick

See if this article helps you.

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;884573

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Regards,

Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup.
Microsoft Certified Professional
Microsoft MVP [Windows]
http://www.microsoft.com/protect

:
| Dave,
| I did that & all it popped up was, Switch User & Logoff. I clicked User
| Accounts in the Control Panel & it only shows 2 Accounts:
|
| Bill
| Computer Administrator
|
| Guest
| Guest account is off
|
| Now what? Appears I'm already logged on as Administrator?
| --
| Thanks.....Bill
| Please reply to the Newsgroup ONLY
|
|
 
W

Willy

Dave,
I'd found that KB article before I posted my original question. Sorry,
should have noted as such. It says:
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
WORKAROUND
To work around this problem, add the "Access this computer from the network"
permission to the user account that will run the scheduled task. To do this
for the local computer policy, follow these steps: 1. Click Start, click
Run, type Gpedit.msc, and then click OK.
2. Expand the following items in the Local Computer Policy list:
Computer Configuration
Windows Settings
Security Settings
Local Policies
3. Click User Rights Assignment.
4. Double-click Access this computer from the network, click Add User
or Group, click Browse, and then add the user name or the group name that
you want.
5. Click OK two times.
Click File, and then click Exit to quit the Group Policy editor
 
D

Dave Patrick

:
| Dave,
| I'd found that KB article before I posted my original question. Sorry,
| should have noted as such. It says:
| ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
| WORKAROUND
| To work around this problem, add the "Access this computer from the
network"
| permission to the user account that will run the scheduled task. To do
this
| for the local computer policy, follow these steps: 1. Click Start, click
| Run, type Gpedit.msc, and then click OK.
| 2. Expand the following items in the Local Computer Policy list:
| Computer Configuration
| Windows Settings
| Security Settings
| Local Policies
| 3. Click User Rights Assignment.
| 4. Double-click Access this computer from the network, click Add User
| or Group, click Browse, and then add the user name or the group name that
| you want.
| 5. Click OK two times.
| Click File, and then click Exit to quit the Group Policy editor
| -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
| However, in step 4 I find no Browse to click on, do you?
* At this point click the "Locations" and choose the domain or local
location (which ever applies), then type the account name in the box, then
'Check Names'

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Regards,

Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup.
Microsoft Certified Professional
Microsoft MVP [Windows]
http://www.microsoft.com/protect
 
D

David Candy

Click advanced then you'll see browse. But you'll be there as everyone anyway.

You do have a password on the account being entered into the job?
 
W

Willy

I see they do now since release of XP SP2. Didn't require them before. But
I can't get it to take a password.
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Thanks.....Bill
Please reply to the Newsgroup ONLY

"David Candy" <.> wrote in message
Scheduled tasks need passwords.
 
D

Dave Patrick

You'll need to change the password for the user account from blank to not
blank.

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Regards,

Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup.
Microsoft Certified Professional
Microsoft MVP [Windows]
http://www.microsoft.com/protect

:
|I see they do now since release of XP SP2. Didn't require them before.
But
| I can't get it to take a password.
| --
| Thanks.....Bill
| Please reply to the Newsgroup ONLY
 
D

David Candy

It's always required a password unless you ran a tweak inviting the world to log on to your computer, without a password.

The password you enter must equal the password on the account that it is being scheduled under.

So in a Task's Properties, Log On tab, enter a user name that has a password and enter that password. You will only see the task do something if that user is logged on when the task runs. Else it runs hidden.
 
D

David Candy

Do you want to see the task run or not. If so you must give bill (I assume that's you) a logon password. Do this in User Accounts in Control Panel. Then enter that password in RunAs tab. You'll need to enter a password at each logon to windows at the welcome screen.

If you can live without watching your task run, create a new account in Control Panel and enter that account and password at the RunAs tab.
 
D

Dave Patrick

Control Panel|User Accounts|"bill's account"|Reset Password

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Regards,

Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup.
Microsoft Certified Professional
Microsoft MVP [Windows]
http://www.microsoft.com/protect

:
| Dave, How do I do that? I'm only user of the PC.
| --
| Thanks.....Bill
| Please reply to the Newsgroup ONLY
 

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