From: "Geo." 

Weird, I can do it here, it then pops up a notice that the admin account
has been granted a right to logon as a service and works fine after a
restart of the scheduler.

Geo.

"Chris Robinson"  wrote in
message news:3E2C23DF.7F3E23DD{at}NOSPAMtotalise.co.uk...
> Just tried that - it doesn't like it.  It pops up an error saying that the
Task
> Scheduler Sevice must be configured to run using the System account (even
though
> individual jobs can be set to run using seperate accounts).
>
> I'm stumped!
>
> Chris.
>
> "Geo." wrote:
>
> > Try setting it to run as the admin account, see if that solves the
problem
> > and if it does then some permission is not set right for the system
account.
> >
> > Geo.
> >
> > "Chris Robinson"
 wrote in message
> > news:3E26E8DE.8410365C{at}NOSPAMtotalise.co.uk...
> > > Howdy y'all
> > >
> > > I'm having a bit of a problem with the Task Scheduler service on
Windows
> > > 2000.  The service won't start - it says "error 5:
access is denied"
> > > (see related post in binaries for pics).  This happens when I'm logged
> > > on as Domain Admin/ Local Admin/ User.
> > >
> > > I've found a few suggestions from the MS Knowledge base such as:
> > >
> > > http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q259/9/07.asp
> > > http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q256/2/99.asp
> > > http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q223/1/70.asp
> > >
> > > To summarise these say to ensure the service is set to use the local
> > > system account (it is, I've checked) and to ensure the local system
> > > account has full access to the root drive (which it does).  I've also
> > > tried to re-apply Win2k SP3 but no luck.  I can't seem to find any
other
> > > relevant information on this error - any suggestions?
> > >
> > > The only other thing I was thinking was a reinstall of IE but I'm
> > > (fairly) sure Task Scheduler comes as part of Win2k and it's only NT
> > > that requires an IE install to get it? (I know NT already
has the "AT"
> > > command but Scheduled Tasks replaces it).
> > >
> > > Ta,
> > > Chris.
> > >
>

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