Microsoft KB Archive/227404

= "Service Is Not Responding to the Control Function" Starting the Scheduler Service =

Article ID: 227404

Article Last Modified on 10/30/2006

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft Windows 2000 Server
 * Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.0

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This article was previously published under Q227404



SYMPTOMS
If the Task Scheduler service is stopped and you later attempt to start it, you may receive the following error message:

The Service is not responding to the Control Function

More Help is Available by Typing NET HELPMSG 2186



RESOLUTION
To work around this problem, make sure that the Read-Only attribute is not set on the Schedlog.txt file in the %SystemRoot% folder.



STATUS
Microsoft has confirmed that this is a problem in the Microsoft products that are listed at the beginning of this article.

Additional query words: 7000 7009

Keywords: kbenv kberrmsg kbprb KB227404

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