On Sep 11, 11:48 am, Henry <hskn
...@comcast.net> wrote:
> Bill Blanton wrote:
> > On 9/11/2012 12:23, Henry wrote:
> >> In a recent post I mistakenly asked how to remove Taskmonitor from
> >> starting. I should have said I wanted to keep Taskscheduler from
> >> starting and appearing in the sys. tray. My sincere apologies but will
> >> some one please help with my new and correct concern?
> > Windows explorer
> > Open Scheduled Tasks
> > Advanced (menu)
> > Stop using ... (menu item)
> Been there done that. It keeps starting on a reboot. I want to stop it period.
> Henry
It's a default registry setting that is launching task scheduler on
standard Win98 installs. It needs to be deleted from the Run keys in
the registry in order to have any peace from the pest.
Under "SchedulingAgent" entry(ies) delete either mstask.exe or
mstinit.exe under the Run, RunOnce, and/or RunServices keys and
reboot. If done right, it won't be there anymore or launch ever again
unless you invoke it from the start menu under system tools. I quote
from the mstask.inf file which has it's TipInfo as "Task Scheduler
starts each time you start Windows, and runs in the background". Just
as you have to keep insisting it does!! How quickly the 'experts'
forget!!
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run]
You may need to pause it with a right click in the system tray AND
kill it by using the Ctrl, Alt + Delete Keys invoked Close Program
applet too and then reboot - been so long I can't remember myself. I
DO remember having to kill it though and sometimes it keeps coming
back.
