[nfbcs] Windows task Scheduler Won't Stay Started

[David Andrews via nfbcs]

Do a JAWS reguild (smirk.)

Dave

At 03:49 PM 5/14/2014, you wrote:
>Hello, everyone.
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>For some time, I have not been able to schedule backups. I'm running windows
>7 Home Premium (I think) on a HP Pavillion DVD7 laptop. I can take system
>image backups so I'm not completely blown out of the water. But it *would*
>be nice to get things working again.
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>The underlying problem is that the Task Scheduler won't stay started
>(Windows Backup needs it and the Event Log service to do its thing). The
>Windows Backup error code is 0x80070032. This just indicates that one or
>more underlying services aren't running. It turns out that the service that
>isn't running is the Task Scheduler. I've tried to restart it usinc
>services.msc; the resulting message says that the service started and
>stopped and that some services *do* stop. Windows Task Scheduler should not
>be one of them, though. There is no error reported.
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>I've looked online and all the suggestions save two I've tried (at least
>that don't require paying for some fancy fixit tool). The two I haven't
>tried are a complete windows reinstall - I don't want to do that because I
>have absolutely everything working as I wish and I *hate* having to go back
>to Square One - and doing a Windows Repair Install - this one can only be
>done with sighted help and while I have this, I'd rather avoid the hassle if
>I could.
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>Does anyone else have ideas? And if I *do* try a Repair Install, will JAWS,
>NVDA, Outlook, TotalRecorder and my other favorite software remain so that I
>can just restart again or am I going to have to go through the whole mess.
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>My kingdom for OpenVMS. (grin)
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>Mike