Friday, September 19, 2014

Adventures in Windows 7 #Whatever: That Blasted Task Scheduler

After all this time, I still haven't managed to get my now-aging Windows 7 system the way I want it. I despise when a company tells me I have to do certain things at certain times every month, week, day, hour. I've never used Task Scheduler before and damned if they'll ever make me use it!

Of course, when I try to go through the hundred tasks Windows tries to run by default and remove ot turn them off, sonething gets screwed. Does anyone really need a dozen tasks running constantly, trying to report everything you do to Microsoft in the name of "helping them improve Windows?"

And I don't have my system on for more than a few carefully selected hours at a time, let alone at 2 AM in the morning so they can run a Disk Defrag. I'll run a Defrag when I want to, and not using your piss poor version. So I try to remove the defrag task from the Scheduler, but then get an error message from the Defrag program, and ever after get error messages all over the Scheduler. To be safe, I completely restore the system to try again, this time unsetting the scheduling from inside the Defrag program first. Which, of course, gives me error messages all over the Scheduler.

*Sigh*

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