From: Chris Robinson 

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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