Run a shorcut? You mean from the desktop or something? No, it's just under the routine systems programs, task scheduler. I don't know how to check the path. The task manager runs my other tasks fine ~ it's just the two. I had 3-4 pages of the same thing that I showed as errors. I had it scheduled to run at a certain time for several months! Never checked back to see if it did until yesterday. Apparently, it didn't, huh? Even when I try to give the command for it to run "once", as in right now, it won't run. I'm very, very techno ignorant, so if there are 10 steps, can't assume that any idiot knows the first 4 and start with 5 in explaining. I use my computer mainly for fun, but do try to keep it maintained. Any further instructions? Thanks. K