Cannot Create Scheduled Task

[garyan2]

I see no reason why creating the task won't work. Maybe you have a group policy in place that prohibits it?

Either way, if it doesn't work, you can open task manager and create the task yourself, manually. Name the task "epg123_update" with 2 actions:

c:\program files (x86)\epg123\epg123.exe -update
c:\program files (x86)\epg123Client.exe -i "c:\programdata\garyan2\epg123\output\epg123.mxf"
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[Jander04]

This was a huge help. Thanks.

I was led to discover that the task scheduler service is not running which I believe at this point is the heart of the problem.

I have searched how to get the task scheduler service running again, but so far, no luck.

I wanted to let you know how much I appreciate your help, and will continue to work on getting the task scheduler running.

Edit:

I think found the fix! The task scheduler on Windows 7 shows STARTED but not "running" like my Windows 8 machines, but it appears to be running anyway. So I tried to create a task manually, and Task Scheduler said I had a task by the name of EPG123_Update already created. Task scheduler didn't show it. The registry didn't show it. I found a file called EPG123_Update under:

C:\Windows\System32\Tasks

I deleted the file, used EPG123.exe to create the scheduled task, and it worked correctly. It appears that EPG123 cannot create a new task if there is an existing task file in C:\Windows\System32\Tasks. When the delete button is pressed, the task in System 32 is deleted, and when a new task is createed, a new file is created.