Spybot won't execute from scheduler - Win 7/64

[Stephen Clark]

Please refer to this thread:

http://forums.spybot.info/showthread...5&goto=newpost

I am having trouble getting Spybot 1.6.2 to execute from a scheduler setting in advanced mode in Windows 7/64-bit. At first I thought it might be malware, but the machine, Kitty4, which is my wife's machine, is free of malware. Ken in the Malware forum suggested I post here.

I have an identical machine to my wife's on which Spybot executes from the scheduler perfectly. I don't know why it won't on her machine. I can only run it manually from the start menu on her machine. Why?

Thanks for your suggestions!

[spybotsandra]

Hello,

Did you open Spybot with a right click and choose "run as administrator/take ownership"?

Best regards
Sandra
Team Spybot

[Stephen Clark]

When I run it from the start menu, yes. The problem now is it does not execute on a schedule, such as 3:00PM every Tues, Thurs, Sun that I have set up in advanced mode/scheduler. It doesn't run at the specified day & time.

[spybotsandra]

Hello,

Did you enter a password?

Best regards
Sandra
Team Spybot

[Stephen Clark]

No password is required on either machine, if that's what you mean.

[drghughes]

Have you tried setting up the scheduled task using the Task Scheduler (Start - All Programs - Accessories - System Tools)? If you're logged on as a user, you may want to run the Task Scheduler as administrator, depending on what you want to do.

I think that I had similar problems setting up scheduled tasks from the Spybot UI on my Windows 7 64 bit PC, but I had no problems getting them running using the Task Scheduler.