Hi,
Is the Administrator logged in locally at the console.?

>Win2000 Server SP4 all patches upto date.
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>We've been using the Task Scheduler to processes on the box for 6 years now, every once in a blue moon this would happen but it wouldn't happen twice in a row.
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>Now since the latest patches went out a couple of weeks ago the exe will not run at all. The scheduler show a status of Running... but the program is absolutely not running! I can tell this because one first things it does is to open a status log on a network drive and starts logging progress information into it.
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>I can run the exe from Windows Explorer.
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>We can't setup any job to work, even a task like launching notepad or calculator fail to run with the same issue.
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>We've deleted the task and reentered it from scratch. We know it's not a RunAs user error because if we put the wrong password in we'll get a Could Not Start status error.
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>The scheduler log show the task start and abnormal termination of it when we rightlick the "running" task and choose end task. The task does not show up in taskman so there is no way to terminate it from there, and there's no window for the launched task to close and shutdown "normally".
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>So far no article from google or msdn has helped at all.
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>Has anyone else seen this? Know what causes it? How to fix it?