Replacing the Windows 2000 Task Scheduler with ATSVC

This is a fairly simple process.

Requirements

• Windows 2000 system
• ATSVC.EXE from Windows NT 4 (in %windir%\system32)
• SRVINSTW.EXE from the Resource Kit

Procedure

1. Copy ATSVC.EXE to your system32 directory
2. Stop the Scheduler Service
3. Run SRVINSTW.EXE  and remove the Task Scheduler service
4. Run SRVINSTW.EXE again, and install ATSVC as a service; call it Scheduler and set it to start automatically.
5. Start the Registry Editor, navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Scheduler, and select the REG_DWORD value named "Type"; set its data to 0x10.
6. Reboot the system.
7. At this point, the retrograded Scheduler service should work fine.