PD7 - Run with password account?

twodaend

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Is there any way around this situation stated by PD. I have a password protected account on XP Pro and have scheduled PD to run early in the morning an online and offline defrag. However my schedule does not run. I have my account to run the XP screen saver and selected "On resume, display Welcome Screen."

Is there another way to schedule PD to run when the account is not really logged in. Since I have PD set to run early in the morning my computer will always be waiting at the welcome screen, The only other way I can get it to work now is to run the schedule manually when I'm logged in, but that is not the way I always want to do it.

From PD site:
I have scheduled PerfectDisk to perform a boot time defrag pass under Windows 2003/XP and if I have a locked screen saver running, PerfectDisk doesn't reboot my system. Why?
If a program tries to initiate a system shutdown when a locked screen saver is running, Windows 2003/XP will not reboot the system and an error code of 1271 is returned. This is a new feature instituted by Microsoft for Windows 2003/XP. Users will either need to log off or use a non-password protected screen saver instead of using a locked screen saver under 2003/XP.
 

KB

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Can you schedule the defrag using the "Task Scheduler" instead of the PD scheduler?
 

twodaend

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I tried using Task Scheduler, but all I can get it to do is open PD, but it does not do anything. I tried to find if any switch(s) could be used, but I could not find any yet.