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Henry

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Sep 11, 2012, 12:23:48 PM9/11/12
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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?

Henry

Bill Blanton

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Sep 11, 2012, 1:35:06 PM9/11/12
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Windows explorer
Open Scheduled Tasks
Advanced (menu)
Stop using ... (menu item)

Henry

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Sep 11, 2012, 1:49:05 PM9/11/12
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Been there done that. It keeps starting on a reboot. I want to stop it period.

Henry



Bill Blanton

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Sep 11, 2012, 2:34:57 PM9/11/12
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That stops it here. Do you have any tasks in the scheduled tasks "folder"?

Look in the registry run keys
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/137367

Or find an old version of Sysinternals AutoRuns program.

98 Guy

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Sep 11, 2012, 8:00:19 PM9/11/12
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Henry wrote:

> Been there done that. It keeps starting on a reboot. I want to stop
> it period.

Did you search your computer for all occurances of taskmon.* and
taskman.* ?

If so, report the results here.

Bill Blanton

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Sep 12, 2012, 9:16:17 AM9/12/12
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On 9/11/2012 13:49, Henry wrote:
One thing that would prevent you from being able to turn it off between
reboots is if the registry is being restored on every boot. Not unusual
if you have flaky RAM.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/186909

Lee

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Sep 18, 2012, 7:24:53 AM9/18/12
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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.
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