Testing and QA

I was getting this error also. For newbies like me I'm giving a details that worked for me: (you can see how moodlecron.exe is running by right clicking my computer and click manage. then click on plus next to system tools, the plus on event viewer, and then on application. There you will see the moodlecron.exe. mine had a red x every 5 minutes.)

I uninstalled it from program/moodlecron uninstall. Then reinstalled choosing 5 minutes instead of 10 and more importantly, changed their address of htt://localhost . . . . to my moodle address. You can test your moodle cron address first by going to your moodlesite and adding in the address bar /admin/cron.php and you will see it run. copy that address from your webpage and paste it into the moodlecron page instead of their localhost. Now mine runs every 5 minutes with no error.

good luck to anyone else reading this.