Loony BoB

Ah, this works! Thanks very much for your help. Does anyone have any idea why this worked and Scheduled Tasks did not, despite Scheduled Tasks running before I formatted my PC? EDIT: What would I need to enter next to /every to get a task to run every day?

Ah, I see. I just ran the following using Start, 'Run': at 1115 "C:\Documents and Settings\Daniel Towns\My Documents\Text files\landlord.txt" /interactive When I entered the information, an MS DOS Prompt screen flashed for a splitsecond. When the time came around, nothing happened. I hope I did it right.

The thing is, I know these tasks worked before I got the new hard drive. I can't imagine any reason why they would work then and not now, unless it's some kind of weird configuration issue that is beyond my knowledge. Also, I don't think there's any command such as that you mentioned which only activates on the first day of a month.

I'm the only person who uses my PC, and am using the only user account.

Here's the info for one of my tasks. Run: "C:\Documents and Settings\Daniel Towns\My Documents\Text files\landlord.txt" Start in: "C:\Documents and Settings\Daniel Towns\My Documents\Text files" Run as: COMPY-COMPY\Daniel Towns Run only if logged in - unchecked. Enabled - checked. Schedule: I don't think this matters much as when I do a test run of anything (by right clicking the scheduled task and then clicking 'Run') it still won't run properly. Settings Delete the task if it is not scheduled to run again - unchecked. Stop the task if it runs for 5 minutes - checked. Idle time area - both unchecked. Power Management area - First two options checked, last option unchecked. The problem persists with these settings. Password has been checked twice.

Can you let me know what you mean by 'nlite'? The service was running, the login does have a password and the password was entered as it should be into the tasks. Apologies for the late reply.

I've recently reinstalled Windows on a new hard drive and have noticed that my Task Scheduler is no longer operating correctly. No matter how I set it up and no matter what I ask it to do - even if it's just opening Notepad - it won't run properly. What happens when the task is run is that, in Task Scheduler, it will display the word 'Running...' as normal, and if I open Task Manager the process will be there... but it's not running. I've tested everything I've run using the Start > Run command and I know that works just fine. Do you have any ideas on what might be causing this problem? Just so you know, I've tried the fix used in this thread to no avail.