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Old 04-08-2008   #1 (permalink)


 
 

corrupted scheduled task after renaming machine

After I renamed my Vista machine, Task Scheduler warned me about two invalid
tasks every time it was opened: User_Feed_Synchronization and Reminders
(should be part of Windows Calender). The two tasks were not shown even with
hidden tasks turned on, which prevented me from modifying them.

I found some trick from Internet to manually locate and edit the job file.
The old machine name was hardcoded in the job file. This must be a bug! I
used notepad to correct the machine names. Now Task Scheduler complains the
two tasks are tampered, still not showing them. Even I manually change the
two files back to original content, it still complains about tampering.

So what can I do now to correct these two tasks?



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Old 04-08-2008   #2 (permalink)
C.B.


 
 

Re: corrupted scheduled task after renaming machine



<-> wrote in message news:##CRtcYmIHA.3512@xxxxxx
Quote:

> After I renamed my Vista machine, Task Scheduler warned me about two
> invalid tasks every time it was opened: User_Feed_Synchronization and
> Reminders (should be part of Windows Calender). The two tasks were not
> shown even with hidden tasks turned on, which prevented me from modifying
> them.
>
> I found some trick from Internet to manually locate and edit the job file.
> The old machine name was hardcoded in the job file. This must be a bug! I
> used notepad to correct the machine names. Now Task Scheduler complains
> the two tasks are tampered, still not showing them. Even I manually change
> the two files back to original content, it still complains about
> tampering.
>
> So what can I do now to correct these two tasks?
>
>

Task Scheduler is capable of doing some strange things in my opinion. I
properly scheduled a task to run at startup, confirmed that the task was
actually scheduled and rebooted. The next thing I saw was a BSOD.
The only way I could overcome the BSOD was to restore using my True
Image bootable rescue DVD.

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