Vista Calendar Stopped Notifications

It used to be that when I put in a future event in Vista Calendar it would
pop up a notification screen for me at the designated time whether I opened
Calendar or not. Now it only pops up the notification if I actually open up
Calendar itself, which I may not do until after the event has past. How can
I correct this.

Ted Smith

On 1/11/2010 5:41 PM, Ted Smith wrote:
> It used to be that when I put in a future event in Vista Calendar it
> would pop up a notification screen for me at the designated time whether
> I opened Calendar or not. Now it only pops up the notification if I
> actually open up Calendar itself, which I may not do until after the
> event has past. How can I correct this.

File | Options. Select "Reminders should show when Windows Calendar is
not running."

--
David Trimboli
http://www.trimboli.name/

Thanks. I checked and the option was set correctly. But I unchecked, and
saved, then rechecked the option and save it again just in case there was a
hiccup there. But that didn't correct the problem. I ran several tests and
it is still there. Any other ideas?

Ted Smith


"David Trimboli" <> wrote in message
news:...
> On 1/11/2010 5:41 PM, Ted Smith wrote:
>> It used to be that when I put in a future event in Vista Calendar it
>> would pop up a notification screen for me at the designated time whether
>> I opened Calendar or not. Now it only pops up the notification if I
>> actually open up Calendar itself, which I may not do until after the
>> event has past. How can I correct this.
>
> File | Options. Select "Reminders should show when Windows Calendar is not
> running."
>
> --
> David Trimboli
> http://www.trimboli.name/

Thanks. I checked and the option was set correctly. But I unchecked, and
saved, then rechecked the option and save it again just in case there was a
hiccup there. But that didn't correct the problem. I ran several tests and
it is still there. Any other ideas?

Ted Smith


"David Trimboli" <> wrote in message
news:...
> On 1/11/2010 5:41 PM, Ted Smith wrote:
>> It used to be that when I put in a future event in Vista Calendar it
>> would pop up a notification screen for me at the designated time whether
>> I opened Calendar or not. Now it only pops up the notification if I
>> actually open up Calendar itself, which I may not do until after the
>> event has past. How can I correct this.
>
> File | Options. Select "Reminders should show when Windows Calendar is not
> running."
>
> --
> David Trimboli
> http://www.trimboli.name/

On 1/17/2010 2:35 PM, Ted Smith wrote:
> Thanks. I checked and the option was set correctly. But I unchecked,
> and saved, then rechecked the option and save it again just in case
> there was a hiccup there. But that didn't correct the problem. I ran
> several tests and it is still there. Any other ideas?

Calendar reminders are tasks in the Task Scheduler. Open this, go to
Task Scheduler Library\Microsoft\Windows\WindowsCalendar, and examine
the tasks that correspond to appointments in your calendar. See if you
can find something wrong. Try making a new appointment with an alert
and see what happens in the Task Scheduler.

--
David Trimboli
http://www.trimboli.name/

Thanks again. When I got there I got two error messages that said:
"An error has occurred for task Reminders - Owner. Error
message: The specified account name is not valid."

The second message was the same except it substituted my name, "Ted", for
"Owner". Where do I go from here?

Ted Smith

"David Trimboli" <> wrote in message
news:%23FbCEa$...
> On 1/17/2010 2:35 PM, Ted Smith wrote:
>> Thanks. I checked and the option was set correctly. But I unchecked,
>> and saved, then rechecked the option and save it again just in case
>> there was a hiccup there. But that didn't correct the problem. I ran
>> several tests and it is still there. Any other ideas?
>
> Calendar reminders are tasks in the Task Scheduler. Open this, go to Task
> Scheduler Library\Microsoft\Windows\WindowsCalendar, and examine the tasks
> that correspond to appointments in your calendar. See if you can find
> something wrong. Try making a new appointment with an alert and see what
> happens in the Task Scheduler.
>
> --
> David Trimboli
> http://www.trimboli.name/

On 1/18/2010 3:16 PM, Ted Smith wrote:
> Thanks again. When I got there I got two error messages that said:
> "An error has occurred for task Reminders - Owner. Error
> message: The specified account name is not valid."
>
> The second message was the same except it substituted my name, "Ted",
> for "Owner". Where do I go from here?

I can't be sure, but I would suggest deleting the "Reminders - Owner"
and "Reminders - Ted" tasks, then going back to the calendar and
resetting (turn off then turn on) the reminders you want.

I just tried this myself. You have to close Task Scheduler and open it
again before you can see the new reminders task, but it worked for me.

--
David Trimboli
http://www.trimboli.name/

Thanks David. The "Reminders - Owner" and "Reminders - Ted" do not exist in
the task scheduler so I can't delete them. I had set my wife up with a user
standard account so I tried setting up a calendar appointment for her. The
Calendar reminder functions worked properly for her, and her reminders
(Reminders - JoAnn) do show up in the task scheduler, but mine don't. I
suspect that something in the registry is pointing to the wrong place. Any
other ideas?

Ted Smith


"David Trimboli" <> wrote in message
news:...
> On 1/18/2010 3:16 PM, Ted Smith wrote:
>> Thanks again. When I got there I got two error messages that said:
>> "An error has occurred for task Reminders - Owner. Error
>> message: The specified account name is not valid."
>>
>> The second message was the same except it substituted my name, "Ted",
>> for "Owner". Where do I go from here?
>
> I can't be sure, but I would suggest deleting the "Reminders - Owner" and
> "Reminders - Ted" tasks, then going back to the calendar and resetting
> (turn off then turn on) the reminders you want.
>
> I just tried this myself. You have to close Task Scheduler and open it
> again before you can see the new reminders task, but it worked for me.
>
> --
> David Trimboli
> http://www.trimboli.name/

"Ted Smith" <> wrote in message
news:...
> Thanks David. The "Reminders - Owner" and "Reminders - Ted" do not exist
> in the task scheduler so I can't delete them. I had set my wife up with a
> user standard account so I tried setting up a calendar appointment for
> her. The Calendar reminder functions worked properly for her, and her
> reminders (Reminders - JoAnn) do show up in the task scheduler, but mine
> don't. I suspect that something in the registry is pointing to the wrong
> place. Any other ideas?
>



Sounds like a confusion over user names ie Owner vs Ted. Perhaps you
switched user at some point.

The calendars are user specific, located in

"%LOCALAPPDATA%\Microsoft\Windows Calendar\Calendars\"

or in layman's terms

"C:\Users\MyUserName\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windo ws Calendar\Calendars\"

So you could perhaps have a look in

"C:\Users\Owner\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Window s Calendar\Calendars\"

and try copying / renaming the calendar over to

"C:\Users\Ted\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows Calendar\Calendars\"

--
Jon

Thanks Jon. Maybe I have a bigger problem than what I thought. All my data
in in \Users\Owner, and nothing is in Users\Ted. At some point I had
renamed the Calendar to "Ted Smith's Calendar" so that is what is reflected
in the .ics file as well as in the .xml file, and both are in only the
\Users\Owner directory. Did I understand you correctly that the data should
be in both directories?

Ted Smith


"Jon" <> wrote in message
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> "Ted Smith" <> wrote in message
> news:...
>> Thanks David. The "Reminders - Owner" and "Reminders - Ted" do not exist
>> in the task scheduler so I can't delete them. I had set my wife up with
>> a user standard account so I tried setting up a calendar appointment for
>> her. The Calendar reminder functions worked properly for her, and her
>> reminders (Reminders - JoAnn) do show up in the task scheduler, but mine
>> don't. I suspect that something in the registry is pointing to the wrong
>> place. Any other ideas?
>>
>
>
>
> Sounds like a confusion over user names ie Owner vs Ted. Perhaps you
> switched user at some point.
>
> The calendars are user specific, located in
>
> "%LOCALAPPDATA%\Microsoft\Windows Calendar\Calendars\"
>
> or in layman's terms
>
> "C:\Users\MyUserName\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windo ws Calendar\Calendars\"
>
> So you could perhaps have a look in
>
> "C:\Users\Owner\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Window s Calendar\Calendars\"
>
> and try copying / renaming the calendar over to
>
> "C:\Users\Ted\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows Calendar\Calendars\"
>
> --
> Jon
>
>
>