Vista - task scheduler started but not????

I have Vista on an hp laptop
I have been in contact with HP about an annoying pop up, they say to
disable it in task scheduler, but when i go to start task scheduler it says
to please verify it is running and to click OK, when the window comes up it
says failed to read data. I have gone in to services and it says its
started. I even tried to right click on the task scheduler in servicees and
all the options to stop it are greyed out, any help?

Thanks
Dave

might do a thorough check of your computer for virus/trojan/malware.
they are known to do strange things.

mikeyhsd@sport.rr.commikeyhsd@sport.rr.com

"fourdave" <fourdave@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:A27994F8-621A-4BA6-8D0C-7DCA2B26C818@microsoft.com...
I have Vista on an hp laptop
I have been in contact with HP about an annoying pop up, they say to
disable it in task scheduler, but when i go to start task scheduler it says
to please verify it is running and to click OK, when the window comes up it
says failed to read data. I have gone in to services and it says its
started. I even tried to right click on the task scheduler in servicees and
all the options to stop it are greyed out, any help?

Thanks
Dave

Thanks , Yes I already ran a full gammit of scans, Hp is telling me I might
have to reinstall vista as the file must be corrupt??? so far i like vista
but this one problem is about to make me take this laptop and throw it
through the window!!!!!!

"mikeyhsd" wrote:

> might do a thorough check of your computer for virus/trojan/malware.
> they are known to do strange things.
>
> mikeyhsd@sport.rr.commikeyhsd@sport.rr.com
>
> "fourdave" <fourdave@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:A27994F8-621A-4BA6-8D0C-7DCA2B26C818@microsoft.com...
> I have Vista on an hp laptop
> I have been in contact with HP about an annoying pop up, they say to
> disable it in task scheduler, but when i go to start task scheduler it says
> to please verify it is running and to click OK, when the window comes up it
> says failed to read data. I have gone in to services and it says its
> started. I even tried to right click on the task scheduler in servicees and
> all the options to stop it are greyed out, any help?
>
> Thanks
> Dave

Did you try to disable UAC (User Account Control) and Windows Defender etc?
It helped me a lot, when I tried to troubleshoot a few things -

I also uninstalled the program One Care, since all this security was making
me pull out my hair in frustration.
I had so many problems installing stuff with all these settings...

"fourdave" <fourdave@discussions.microsoft.com> skrev i meddelelsen
news:F529BBE5-0804-48FD-B362-5BC7AC8774A8@microsoft.com...
> Thanks , Yes I already ran a full gammit of scans, Hp is telling me I
> might
> have to reinstall vista as the file must be corrupt??? so far i like vista
> but this one problem is about to make me take this laptop and throw it
> through the window!!!!!!
>
> "mikeyhsd" wrote:
>
>> might do a thorough check of your computer for virus/trojan/malware.
>> they are known to do strange things.
>>
>> mikeyhsd@sport.rr.commikeyhsd@sport.rr.com
>>
>> "fourdave" <fourdave@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>> news:A27994F8-621A-4BA6-8D0C-7DCA2B26C818@microsoft.com...
>> I have Vista on an hp laptop
>> I have been in contact with HP about an annoying pop up, they say to
>> disable it in task scheduler, but when i go to start task scheduler it
>> says
>> to please verify it is running and to click OK, when the window comes
>> up it
>> says failed to read data. I have gone in to services and it says its
>> started. I even tried to right click on the task scheduler in servicees
>> and
>> all the options to stop it are greyed out, any help?
>>
>> Thanks
>> Dave

This is probably a symptom of a problem with the Event Viewer service
(Windows Event Log) not starting or functioning correctly--you can't have
Task Scheduler without Event Log (even though it may appear that the Task
Scheduler Service is running).
Open Event Viewer in Administrative Tools---do you get an error? If so,
check Services and try to start (restart) the Event Log Service. If it won't
stay running, that's the root of your problem, which quite a number of
others have experienced. I do not have a solution. Yet.

--
Maxwell Bluemeanie
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"fourdave" <fourdave@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:F529BBE5-0804-48FD-B362-5BC7AC8774A8@microsoft.com...
> Thanks , Yes I already ran a full gammit of scans, Hp is telling me I
> might
> have to reinstall vista as the file must be corrupt??? so far i like vista
> but this one problem is about to make me take this laptop and throw it
> through the window!!!!!!
>
> "mikeyhsd" wrote:
>
>> might do a thorough check of your computer for virus/trojan/malware.
>> they are known to do strange things.
>>
>> mikeyhsd@sport.rr.commikeyhsd@sport.rr.com
>>
>> "fourdave" <fourdave@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>> news:A27994F8-621A-4BA6-8D0C-7DCA2B26C818@microsoft.com...
>> I have Vista on an hp laptop
>> I have been in contact with HP about an annoying pop up, they say to
>> disable it in task scheduler, but when i go to start task scheduler it
>> says
>> to please verify it is running and to click OK, when the window comes
>> up it
>> says failed to read data. I have gone in to services and it says its
>> started. I even tried to right click on the task scheduler in servicees
>> and
>> all the options to stop it are greyed out, any help?
>>
>> Thanks
>> Dave