Hi, today I am going to be showing you how to remove task scheduler popups from your computer, and if you’re not sure what I’m talking about… I’m pretty sure you have encountered this somewhere along with having programs run on your computer without you even having an idea that it’s running, right?!
Or a program goes to update by itself without your permission and can cause an alarm. But nothing to be too terrified about as far as viruses or stuff like that you actually installed on your computer, so you are pretty much in control there.
Accessing Task Scheduler
In order to show you what the problem is and how to solve it, I’m going to go ahead and open up my nifty little task scheduler. So I’m going to go to my start menu and I’m going to type in tasks, and we see that we have the “task scheduler” highlighted so I’m going to go ahead and open that.
Just like the name implies it’s a task scheduler – meaning that a task is set to execute or perform certain actions on your computer at any given time, depending on when it’s scheduled.
Checking and Viewing Scheduled Tasks
If you install a particular program on your computer every now and then it might pop up and say new update is available and that’s a direct result of a task scheduler setup on your computer. So what I’m talking about is a very annoying little scheduler that comes up on my computer, and it often pops up with a command prompt window or a black screen.
It pops up sometimes when I’m doing videos like these – and it is very annoying! And not only that, but sometimes it opens up a web page in this case with a bunch of emails or links trying to get me to buy something.
And that’s a direct result of me installing programs on my computer that I need for certain things. What I’m talking about here is annoying the task scheduler that comes up from LocustWare software. So in particular I’m talking about these two updates.
Task Scheduler Actions and Results (Example included)
So when I click on it, it gives you a description, the name, and more information. It says it’s triggered or scheduled to run once per week, and it checks its web page for messages. The trigger in this example is set to run daily at 3:27 pm every 7 days, so every day at almost 3:30 pm, it’s going to annoy me. In this case, it runs a program and opens Explorer, and then it goes to this particular web page or URL.
I don’t want that! So what I’m going to do here is go ahead and right-click on the action, then select “delete”. This applies to any other program that runs unexpectedly or at inconvenient times when you are trying to use your computer. In addition to that, some of these things tend to run in the background. So it’s unnecessary resources that are being used on your computer when it could be used for something else.
How to Delete Schedule Task Triggers & Actions
For the most part, I disable all the updates for most of the software, except my virus protection software and all that other important stuff. That’s because I just don’t want to be bothered with all those things running when I don’t need them to be running.
While you are in here, you can look at other scheduled tasks that are set up to run at particular times, and if it’s not something that you want to run, then what you could do is delete/disable them from here.
Conclusion
Now you don’t have to worry anymore about that or any particular tasks running in the background, or opening up my browser at inconvenient times.
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