Question: I recently installed PubMed alert and am really excited about it since it would save many hours of searching but when I save and exit it says scheduling failed. I left the Windows password blank as I do not have one on my machine. It does send me an email saying it accepted my settings but then it never does the search. Can you help me with this?

Question:The file I downloaded via your link installed without any problems and everything seemed to work fine. However, after testing it for a couple of weeks I haven't received a single eMail reporting new publications. I do receive an eMail
whenever I update the program, so it's not an issue with the address or sending mail. It used to work fine and I haven't changed any major setups. Any ideas what could be interfering here?

Answer: You must have a Windows password that is not blank in order to schedule the tasks. See http://support.microsoft.com/kb/310715 for instruction why this is happening and how to setup a password.