Windows 2000 Task Scheduler wont start

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re-apply SP 4

Just some ideas:
Make sure the service configured to log on as the local system account, or may not start. and On the Log On tab, make sure that the local system account is selected, and that the Allow service to interact with desktop check box has a check mark
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more ideas;
Check your application log, is there any "warning" or "error" event showup at that ime.
also check Rmote Procedure call is running properly, Task scheduler is depends on this service.

CHeck the following article: http://tinyurl.com/2qom2

also is that the only error message in the eventviewer, and did you apply the w2k sp4 post patches ?

Leopold

Here is the Registry dump of the Task Scheduler service, every entry and value. Make sure yours looks like this:

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Schedule]
"Description"="Enables a user to configure and schedule automated tasks on this computer. If this service is stopped, these tasks will not be run at their scheduled times. If this service is disabled, any services that explicitly depend on it will fail to start."
"Type"=dword:00000120
"Start"=dword:00000002
"ErrorControl"=dword:00000001
"ImagePath"=hex(2):25,00,53,00,79,00,73,00,74,00,65,00,6d,00,52,00,6f,00,6f,00,\
74,00,25,00,5c,00,53,00,79,00,73,00,74,00,65,00,6d,00,33,00,32,00,5c,00,73,\
00,76,00,63,00,68,00,6f,00,73,00,74,00,2e,00,65,00,78,00,65,00,20,00,2d,00,\
6b,00,20,00,6e,00,65,00,74,00,73,00,76,00,63,00,73,00,00,00
"DisplayName"="Task Scheduler"
"Group"="SchedulerGroup"
"DependOnService"=hex(7):52,00,70,00,63,00,53,00,73,00,00,00,00,00
"DependOnGroup"=hex(7):00,00
"ObjectName"="LocalSystem"
"NextAtJobId"=dword:00000002
"AtTaskMaxHours"=dword:00000048

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Schedule\Parameters]
"ServiceDll"=hex(2):25,00,53,00,79,00,73,00,74,00,65,00,6d,00,52,00,6f,00,6f,\
00,74,00,25,00,5c,00,73,00,79,00,73,00,74,00,65,00,6d,00,33,00,32,00,5c,00,\
73,00,63,00,68,00,65,00,64,00,73,00,76,00,63,00,2e,00,64,00,6c,00,6c,00,00,\
00
"ServiceMain"="SchedServiceMain"

Other Services were blocking the start of the service. Thanks for everyones help

Look at Task Scheduler?s log file, %systemroot%\schedlgu.txt. If you see the message 0x8004130f: No account information could be found in the Task Scheduler security database for the task indicated, you can eliminate the problem by rescheduling the jobs with the correct username and password.

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