Background:One Vista Ultimate computer and one XP-Pro computer on the same "MSHOME" network/workgroup: HAL9000 is XP-Pro SONYLAP is Vista Ultimate with UAC enabled and registry's LocalAccountTokenFilterPolicy set to 1 Both have the same administrator account name and password. SONYLAP firewall settings to allow schtasks remotely. SONYLAP is running elevated command prompt HAL9000 firewall is turned off Both below are results from running from the same admin account on both machines.1) HAL9000 runs: C:\> schtasks /QUERY /S SONYLAP This fails with "The network path was not found"2) SONYLAP, from an elevated command prompt runs: C:\> schtasks /QUERY /S HAL9000 This fails with "Access Is Denied"Note : Same command from HAL9000 to another XP box (with firewall turned ON) works.Note II: Same command from SONYLAP to another Vista box works.Any tips on how to make this work appreciated.Thanks,wh1957

Hi, This is by design. Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 machines are not able to see the Scheduled Tasks folder on downlevel clients. This is due to fundamental architecture changes made to the Task Scheduler in new products. Hope the information is helpful.

Hi Joson, It's not the answer I was hoping for, but it is helpful in that I can stop banging my head on this one.Thanks,wh1957

Run the command prompt as Administror. Also, w/ Vista, you must enable the task before running it. On XP, disabled task would run.

Use AT \\Computername to see the tasks

When I tried this it did not show the scheduled task when using AT on Win 7 to see XP. It also failed XP to XP. I believe this is because the task which shows on the remote machine was created using schtask not AT, AT only shows AT created commands. Another post I saw indicated that schtasks does not work Win7 to XP by design. So going XP to XP seems the only answer if you want to use schtasks to remotely schedule or delete tasks on on XP machines. At least that is what I have found so far. schtask does work W7 to w7 schtasks /query /s Computername /u domain\userid /p password schtasks /query /s \\Computername /u domain\userid /p password Note that the double-backslashes are allowed but are not necessary as both command-lines above worked against another Win 7 computer Also the command is posistional, that is /Query as in this example must be right after the command. So To summarize: Don't try to use schtask from Windows 7 computers to XP computers. Use schtask from XP to XP or from W7 to W7, that works. Good luck. One workaround on Windows 7 would be to enable XP Mode and use your local (free) xp license to allow support of download clients until they are all gone. That should only take a few years or so.

All you need to do is use a copy of 'schtasks.exe' from an XP box (located in sytem32 folder). You can save this anywhere (maybe rename to save confusion) and use it to create tasks on XP boxes from win7. The reverse is probably true also, though I've not tried.