NEVER copy and paste mstask files in folder

Red Squirrel · Post by **Red Squirrel** » Sun Sep 26, 2004 8:22 pm

NEVER do what I did!

I coped and pasted the task files (had about 10 of 'em) to a backup folder, did the clean install and all that. Then I came back, copied the files back into the folder. well that was it. it crashed the computer, explorer shut down, had to reboot.

Now ms task refuses to work.

Just a tip from experience. Don't try it at home!

I think it has to do with the fact that I created those tasks with SP3 installed, now I don't have any SP installed so it did something weird. Now I installed SP4 and I'm getting different errors which mean more to me, so from here I should be ok.

The error I got at first was "Object Already Exists" with some weird code that looked like 0x8009000F. So I went to ms support page and I had to delete the file in this folder: C:Documents and SettingsAll UsersApplication DataMicrosoftCryptoRSAS-1-5-18

After that I started getting "0x80090016: keyset does not exist" and everything went downhill from there.

Now I'm getting an error that the service is not started so I'll go start it and hopefully it will get fixed.

Figured I'd post this so no one makes the same mistake as me.

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Red Squirrel · Post by **Red Squirrel** » Sun Sep 26, 2004 8:33 pm

Nope, even SP4 did not fix it. Looks like I'll be running my backups manually cuz I don't feel like reinstalling windows again.

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Red Squirrel · Post by **Red Squirrel** » Mon Sep 27, 2004 7:50 pm

Just found out Protected Storage service has to be enabled for task scheduler to work properly. Just thought I'd add to this thread for those finding this by search or what not.

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richardj · Post by **richardj** » Tue Oct 05, 2004 12:20 am

I don't know what your running ( Win2000?) but a very cool free program I use is called appmove.

You tell it where to move an application & it does it, changes the registry & deletes the old files.

I took the WinProgram Files & moved them from C to D.

XP didn't like it, but I closed a couple of "you can't do that" boxes & it worked just fne.

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