"Terry Pinnell" <terrypinDELETE@THESEdial.pipex.com> wrote in message
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> Terry Pinnell <terrypinDELETE@THESEdial.pipex.com> wrote:
>
>>Help!
>>
>>I discovered by accident today that all my scheduled tasks (such as
>>some important nightly backups) were no longer working. On
>>examination, the Set Password box was empty for each one. I entered
>>and confirmed them all - but on later re-opening Properties, the
>>password is blank again.
>>
>>FWIW, the Run As box contains TERRY\Terry.
>>
>>How can I fix this please?
>
> Although I made progress since my post last night, I'm still hoping to
> get some help on this please.
>
> Here's a screenshot:
> http://www.terrypin.dial.pipex.com/I...chedTasks1.gif
>
> After changes in Services, I was able to set the password and it
> appeared to 'stick', with ***** in the boxes. And I was pleased to
> find that I was then able to get the scheduled task running.
>
> But on rebooting my PC, I'm surprised to see the password (and
> confirmation) boxes *empty* again! Yet that task still seems to run.
>
> So, could someone please check and see if their boxes are also empty?

Yes, my password and user fields are *empty* even with a password/user set
in these fields.

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William