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From: brickman on 30 Mar 2010 22:08 OK, I did remove my Log-on password (if that's the one you meant) and it does seem that a couple of things already did run. I scheduled Avast but it does not show in the Scheduled Tasks. Any other things that I should schedule? Thank you. "brickman" wrote: > Yes, I do have a password to log in. I was thinking of removing it anyways, > so let me go ahead and delete it. I shall post what happens...Thank you! > > "Patrick Keenan" wrote: > > > > > "brickman" <brickman(a)discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message > > news:684A8664-C3F9-4C53-BB50-0DEBAAA59874(a)microsoft.com... > > >I have a few things under Scheduled Tasks that apparently never do run. Is > > > there anything that I should have scheduled in there on a regular basis? > > > If > > > so, can someone tell me which programs? > > > Do I have to schedule my Avast , MBAM, Spybot in there, or they run by > > > themselves? I did schedule Avast a few minutes ago but it did not go on. > > > > > > Thank you for any help. > > > > You don't have a password on your user account, do you? > > > > The Task Scheduler, by default and for security reasons, will not run tasks > > on local accounts without passwords. It just quietly fails. > > > > Add the password to your account - for this purpose, it doesn't matter what > > it is as long as it's not blank - and to the task. > > > > HTH > > -pk > > > > . > > |