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Hi,
I'm struggling to run a scheduled task on win7 machine (which is already created and calls a vbs) from XP machine programatically. I've tried this code for example:

dim objTaskService, objTask, objRootFolder

Set objTaskService = CreateObject("Schedule.Service")
objTaskService.Connect("win7pc")

Set objRootFolder = objTaskService.GetFolder("\")
Set objTask = objRootFolder.GetTask("test_task)
objTask.Run vbNull

This code works perfect when running it from win7-win7 or win7-XP machine but not XP-win7 machine.
It gives me "ActiveX component can't create object: 'Schedule.Service'" error but can't seem to find anything usefull to solve this error.

Does anyone has an idea why this code doesn't work in XP-win7 or can someone suggest another way how to run scheduled task programatically on windows7 machine when calling it from XP machine?

Tnx for suggestions,
regards

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Have you looked at schtasks.exe? There is a section of documentation here on MSDN that gives an overview of the requirements for running a task on a remote computer.

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