Win XP SP2 and Task Scheduler

do you have to enter a password?

I've just gone through the "Scheduled Tasks" wizard in Control Panel and haven't come across a password so far.

Are you logged on as an Administrator, or a User?

Mark

I'm having the same problem. Even when using the wizard, it requires you to enter a password for the user, when creating a new task. My account is an administrator account, but I did not supply it with a password when XP was set up. Whenever you try to create a task without entering a password, it will not start the task, and gives you an 'access denied' error.

security reasons.

You could simply create a new user with password (suggest new user with Admin privileges as some tasks require Admin permissions) then scheduling the task to run under that user account. Make sure to assign permissions to directories and files as needed for the account you assign a password to.

This page should walk you through doing just that -
http://www.iopus.com/guides/winscheduler.htm