TASK SCHEDULER REQUIRES PASSWORD/NOTHING WORKS

RUNNING WIN/XP ACRONIS IS SET UP AND WORKING FINE BUT WHEN I TRY TO USE TASK SCHEDULE I CAN'T GET PAST THE USER NAME AND PASSWORD BOXES. TRIED EVERYTHING I KNOW INCLUDING LEAVING THEM BLANK, GET ERROR MESSAGE REQUESTING USER NAME TO PROCEED.
EARLIER I WAS ABLE TO SCHEDULE A TASK BUT WAS TOLD IT WOULD NOT RUN WITHOUT USER NAME AND PASSWORD AND IT DID NOT RUN. CAN ANYONE HELP WITH THIS?

 

Hello wildbill1326,

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We are really sorry for the inconveniences.

Could you please send the screenshots of all your actions in wizard and the screenshot of the error you receive tosupport@acronis.com along with the link ot this thread? This information would let us investigate the problem under consideration thoroughly and provide you with a possible workaround.

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Ilya Toytman

 

Let me guess... your PC is set up to automatically log in, and you don't know the username and password?

 

I'm having the same problem with scheduled backups to a workgroup share. Shear the forum and you'll find a bunch of people suffering from this issue. I doubt that it's as simple as one guy forgetting uid and p/w.

 

I think I read in the TI manual that for Schedule to work, the logon must have a password. Then you can enter your logon name and the password associated with that logon in the scheduler function.

When I did that, the scheduler worked. When I used a blank password (no password), it didn't. Since I hate having to enter a password every time I reboot, I just gave up on the Scheduler.