I have no passwords set up for administrative privileges. The Computer goes directly to the Desk Top when started. When I attempt to change the schedule for a scan and click OK in the configuration screen, I get a popup screen with three lines:
Run as (Tony/Owner) is filled in; Password (space is blank) and Confirm Password (Space is blank). I ignore the opportunity to fill in a PW in both blank spaces and Click on OK. A Task Scheduler error messasge comes up" An error has occurred while attempting to set task account info: Specific Error is 0x80070005: Access Denied YOu do not have permission to peraform the requested operation. I click OK, then Click Finish.
At the scheduled time the scan does NOT execute.
Is there some way to get NIS to turn off the necessity of having admin priviliges (as the only user I should already have them) in order to set up a scan.
Absent an NIS solution, how do I get this privilege issue wiht XP SP3 resolved.
This is a known issue with the Windows Task manager. For blank passwords, just tap the space bar once in each location (password and confirm password) and Click OK. The scheduled task should then run as you wish.
I did as you suggested, one tap of the space bar in each of the two PW windows. Still the same error message. Any other suggestions?
There seems to be a fix from MS for this: KB904423 . Apply their HotFix and see if that does not fix the problem.
I went to the link provided. Found that the Hot Fix had not been updated since 8/29/07 and was good only as far as XP SP2. I’ve posted my question on a microsoft XP Forum. In the interim I’ve gone to Control Panel, User Accounts, and set myself up with a Password, restarted the computer (this time I got a log in screen) and logged in as administrator. I made a change to the schedule. The Program at that point didn’t ask for my passwords. A Scan then initiated a scan at the proper time. This solved the problem in terms of getting it to go off as scheduled. However it now requires me to provide a password each time I log in. There are many online postings about how to avoid the log in screen but i’m unsure if any of those “solutions” also perserve the ability of NIS to recognize that the administrator is the logged on user thus bypassing the need to type in passwords.
Windows do not require user accounts to create a password when software is installed. However, the Windows Task Scheduler does require that users have a password for any scheduled events to run. If a scheduled scan is not configured with a user name and password, then the scan will not run. If you can, try to create a test user account with password (Administrator privilages) and schedule the scan using that Username/Password. Also, delete the Schedule you had previously, and create a new one through the NIS settings, and this must fix the issue. Let us know how it goes.
As indicated in my previous post " I made a change to the schedule. The Program at that point didn't ask for my passwords. NIS then initiated a scan at the proper time. This solved the problem in terms of getting it to go off as scheduled". Note that I was not requested to provide a password at the time I made the change in the schedule./ Presumably this was because I had logged on as Administrator when I rebooted the computer (see above Post).
In earlier posts I had asked if there was any way I could disable NIS's requests for paswords. I've stumbled across such a setting at
(Miscellaneous Settings)(Product Security)(Settings Password Protection (Choices Yes or No). This could conceivably be used to negate Task Scheduler's requirementa for Passwords. Does this item include settings for Task Scheduler which accepts its input from NIS?
The setting you mention is only to Password Protect NIS’s configuration settings. It has nothing to do with Window’s Task Schedule interface. What Yogesh said is correct; you’re issue is with the Windows side of the Schedule not the Norton side. It did not ask for the password to modify the current scheduled task because Windows saw you logged in as an Administrator already.