Have you ever tried to schedule a task in the Control Panel of XP? Its called "Scheduled Tasks".
The programs run fine. I pick a few software and it run at the certain as specified WITHOUT me logging in.
Now log in and go to that program you just ran and you lost your profiles or configurations for that software.
It is very frustrating and I have to reconfigure my software again.
Does this happen to you?

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