So I have a vbscript I'm trying to run with task scheduler and it doesn't seem to work. Here are all the scenarios I've gone through. NOTE: My login credentials are not part of administrator. 1. If I schedule a task to run at a certain time, I schedule it with my login credentials, and I'm logged in at that time, it runs with no problems. 2. If I scedule a task to run at a certain time, I schedule it with my login credentials, but I'm NOT logged in, it won't run. What I do is I log in several minutes after it is scheduled, check task manager's process's, and I can still see it running, yet it is doing nothing. It also says it is running in scheduled tasks. I know for a fact though it should not be running this long. 3. Do the same thing as #2 except I create the task with admin credentials. I get the same results. It is running under process's but is not actually doing anything. Has anyone encountered this, and has a solution been found? Thanks

I recall something similar which happened to me when scheduling NTBACKUP. I think that Windows either runs a scheduled task as a user or System. Only "system" works independently to logged on users. Administrator is no different to other users here. In a way this does make sense. In Win2k/XP a process accesses other parts of the OS with security credentials. If a user runs a program, it has the same permissions as that user. When you log out of administrator, a program scheduled to run with administrator priveleges loses those priveleges. "If we don't succeed, we run the risk of failure." - BILL CLINTON

Do you know how to schedule a task as a system rather than a user?