Need Help with Task Scheduled

[yoni5002]

Hi guys, I have written several e-mail to Microsoft letting them know about something I have consider a bug in XP for a very long time. When you create a scheduled task it will not run if you don't set a password in your account and in the scheduled task as well, this happens only by using this feature in specific. i.e., your antivirus scan runs fine without any password in your administrator account. The same goes with other tasks... This happens only with Windows Scheduled task

I have written a little script to run "defrag c:" and "defrag c: -b" one after the other.
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CODE:
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@echo off
title Windows XP Professional Optimization Task

echo Your System is being optimized for overall Windows performance...

sleep.exe 3

echo.

echo Organizing Information...

sleep.exe 3

echo.

echo Boosting Windows performance...

defrag c:
defrag c: -b

echo.

echo Optimization Completed!
sleep.exe 5
exit
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The script runs fine when I execute it but when you schedule it nothing happen due to the crappy Windows Task Schedule feature and the User password issue which I have e-mailed Microsoft so many times!!

Can anyone give me a solution to run the scheduled task without any password in my account?

Thanks in advanced

Yoni5002º
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[PTooti]

did you get this sorted?

Running Tasks Without A Password

For XP Pro: Go to Start/Administrative Tools/Local Security Policy/Security Settings/Local Policies/Security Options
Accounts: Limit local account use of blank passwords to console logon only. This is enabled by default, disable it.

For XP Home: (Keith Miller) Go to Start/Run/Regedit and navigate to this key:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Contro l\Lsa

Value name: limitblankpassworduse, Type: REG_DWORD, Data: 0 (disabled) 1 (enabled)

[yoni5002]

Originally Posted by PTooti

did you get this sorted?

Running Tasks Without A Password

For XP Pro: Go to Start/Administrative Tools/Local Security Policy/Security Settings/Local Policies/Security Options
Accounts: Limit local account use of blank passwords to console logon only. This is enabled by default, disable it.

For XP Home: (Keith Miller) Go to Start/Run/Regedit and navigate to this key:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Contro l\Lsa

Value name: limitblankpassworduse, Type: REG_DWORD, Data: 0 (disabled) 1 (enabled)

Yeah, thanks

Actually what I did was using "control userpasswords2" I disabled the "users must enter a username and passwords to use this computer"... That did the trick as well...

Thanks anyways