ERROR 0x8007007A when trying to schedule a task

Posted by Paul Hollingsworth on Super User See other posts from Super User or by Paul Hollingsworth
Published on 2009-12-18T13:06:53Z Indexed on 2012/03/22 5:32 UTC
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I am getting the error "The data area passed to a system call is too small. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x8007007A)" when trying to create a scheduled task on a particular windows machine.

The problem description is identical to that described in this Microsoft KB article

I followed their steps to resolve:

  1. Stopped the task scheduler service (right-clicked "Task Scheduler" in the Services window from Control Panel and selected "Stop").
  2. Restarted the task scheduler service
  3. Waited 15 minutes
  4. tried to schedule the task.

But the error is persisting.

To give more context of how we are creating these scheduled tasks, they are actually generated automatically from a configuration script (we run the script each time we wish to make a change). Each time this happens, it deletes all of the existing tasks and creates new ones.

I don't know what else to try.... but surely there is some way to "reset" the task scheduler... How can I stop this error from happening.

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