Win2K Task Scheduler says running but it's not

From: David Frankenbach (sendnospam_at_sendnospam.net)
Date: 09/16/05 

Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2005 10:42:01 -0500

Ever since we applied the latest round of Windows Updates to a Win2K machine
the task scheduled on the box will fire off at the scheduled time and the
status displays as Running, but the program is in fact NOT running. The exe
had been running flawlessly once a week for the last 5 years. I know it's
not really running because the first thing it does is create a log file and
begins writing progress information into it. It shows up as a _process_ in
taskman, but not as an _application_.

If I double click the exe from windows explorer it runs fine.

We've been through a couple of reboots, stopping/restarting the scheduler,
deleting the task and setting it back up again, verified that the Run As
credentials are correct, nothing has worked. We've even tried setting up a
new task that just launches Notepad.exe or Calc.exe and they exhibit the
same behavior.

Is there a hotfix for the now quite broken scheduler? Some obtuse
configuration that needs to be changed? A registry hack?

df

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