Disabling Task Scheduler in win7

[BabaYaga]

Hi Guys,

I never had any problem disabling Task Scheduler service in XP Pro.

It seems to me that this option is not available in win 7
All settings are dimmed. I cannot reset it from Automatic to Disabled.

How that can be done? My account has Admin rights (only one account here)

I must try this because there are enormous number of sceduled tasks. I don't need any of them. Most of them are from preinstalled Applications by Asus, but there are some MS stuff as well, that I don't want to use anyway

Thanks in advance for ideas

 

[richc46]

Type task scheduler in search. When you see it, right click and run as administrator. Then right pane, disable. This disables individual service, not the task scheduler.

 

[logicearth]

Disabling Task Scheduler...Uhhh no, this in not Windows XP Task Scheduler is far more important in Windows 7. Disabling it will only hurt the system. Disabling it will not improve any performance.

 

[Bare Foot Kid]

Hello BabaYaga, welcome to Seven Forums!



Too many MS services in Windows 7 rely on the task scheduler to run successfully, it can't be disabled without disabling the entire system.

 

[NoN]

By having a quick look in the Task Schedulers, list all your MS services...That's a huge amount!

 

[arkhi]

It's not a good idea. Trust me. Back in the Win7 beta days, the whole task scheduler would malfunction and the only way to fix it was a reinstall/"upgrade". I would keep slamming my head on my desk because of how I have to do an upgrade install every 2 weeks to get it working again.

Without Task Scheduler, my system was "stable" technically. But just as others have said, too many programs depend on Task Scheduler and when you start to meddle with things after TS is off, you'll start to realize you need it.

Examples of programs that need task sched:
System Restore (checkpoints)
Reliability History (index and stability are scheduled through TS)
Windows Update (check)
Other Program Updates (depending on the program)

And checks such as
TCP/IP conflicts
Disk Diagnosis
Network Info check
System Sound Service
Power Controls
WinSAT (performance and abilities)

 

[karlsnooks]

Baba Yaga,
Here's what i do, and with no ill-effects.

Download, install, and run Autoruns.exe.
You will need to "Run as administrator"

Oh yes, to run as administrator--Right-Click on Autoruns.exe and choose "run as administrator"

Wait for autoruns to finish examining your system, then go to the Task Scheduler tab. There you can disable any scheduled task which you do not feel is needed. Here I will let the cat out of the bag--I've disabled all tasks there and my system runs well and fast. I'm not saying to follow my lead-just reporting what I've done.

Autoruns for Windows

 

[BabaYaga]

Hi Guys,

Thank you all for replies.

I suspected as much that it's not advisable just to shut down Task Scheduler (TS) in win 7.
Yes, I do know how to work with Autoruns and that many stuff depends on TS in this system

... actually from some example above - I don't need those: no diagnostics , no history etc... "Sound Service" ??? ... Oh my!

Sure I will go one by one regarding scheduling the same way as I am doing with unneeded services as per Black Viper

Shame.
Actually I am not really working with win 7 ... just setting up for some friends with new laptops & preinstalled win 7
I passed Vista (never used that disaster). Win 7 is not much better ... and x64 - is a joke

Personally staying with Linux (few flavours) and using XP Pro ... until 2014

... but most likely I'll have further questions therefore your help is much appreciated

Tanks again and best wishes.

 

[Bare Foot Kid]

Hello again.


There's not much to be gained and a lot to be lost (system instability) removing / disabling services in Windows 7 and it won't really add back any resources; "Black Viper" isn't as relative as it was back in the ol' XP days.

Best of luck.

 

[NoN]

Hello again.


There's not much to be gained and a lot to be lost (system instability) removing / disabling services in Windows 7 and it won't really add back any resources; "Black Viper" isn't as relative as it was back in the ol' XP days.

Best of luck.

Yes that's true it was back on XP...but some service like fingerprint card, windows biometric, Wwan and some others...can be easily disable if not installed on the computer...

 

[logicearth]

Yes that's true it was back on XP...but some service like fingerprint card, windows biometric, Wwan and some others...can be easily disable if not installed on the computer...

As none of those are running unless you have any of those devices, in turn disabling does nothing.

 

[NoN]

Yes that's true it was back on XP...but some service like fingerprint card, windows biometric, Wwan and some others...can be easily disable if not installed on the computer...

As none of those are running unless you have any of those devices, in turn disabling does nothing.

Humm, perhaps....you're right. Guess i've some old xp habits still in me.

 

[JoeJoe2]

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Hi guys,
I just converted my 64 ultimate and 32 vista machines to 7. I have disabled some of the services (superfetch etc) and have gone thru the task scheduler bit by bit and disabled most of the tasks. I kept seeing the customer experience tasks, even though I did not opt in. I disabled them all (thru the console). Aren't these tasks that send data back to MS?? Will be searching the forums for candidates for service and task disables. You guys are life savers.
Thanks
Joe

 

[Bare Foot Kid]

Hi guys,
I just converted my 64 ultimate and 32 vista machines to 7. I have disabled some of the services (superfetch etc) and have gone thru the task scheduler bit by bit and disabled most of the tasks. I kept seeing the customer experience tasks, even though I did not opt in. I disabled them all (thru the console). Aren't these tasks that send data back to MS?? Will be searching the forums for candidates for service and task disables. You guys are life savers.
Thanks
Joe

Hello JoeJoe2, welcome to Seven Forums!


You will have better success getting your issue sorted if you start a new thread, click the yellow "new thread" button at the posted link below.

General Discussion - Windows 7 Forums


Thanks, we'll be looking for it.

 

[BabaYaga]

Hello again.
There's not much to be gained and a lot to be lost (system instability) removing / disabling services in Windows 7 and it won't really add back any resources; "Black Viper" isn't as relative as it was back in the ol' XP days.
Best of luck.

Hi Bare Foot Kid,

Thanks for your input

Sorry for the delaied reply

No, sorry that's still much to gain & "Black Viper" is still very actual & working

I started with 79 (!) processes running /scheduled etc.

Now I am under 50(!) slowly disabling unneeded stuff

System is much more responsive. The Quad computer with 4 times more memory is still slower than XP Dual Core with just 2GB
Win 7 is a pure c**p ... (not much better than Vista , which basically - "nothing") sorry to be so blunt and rude
Why user should go through all of this in order to making this new OS working faster and being close to old XP regarding the performance ... not saying that x64 dose not bring any advantages except of troubles . Running 32bit applications is faster and more reliable than 64 ones ??? 2 Javas ; Flash - no 64bit ; IE is hanging - be careful to install any new add-on.
No problems with Firefox noticed tough ... and so on & so forth

Shame!

Cheers!

 

[Capt.Jack Sparrow]

Hello,

I just disabled Task Scheduler no problem so far. But i had to use a Tool to do that. Its here Tweak for Windows 7 | PC Tips Please do in your own risk

Hope this helps,
Captain

 

[BabaYaga]

I just disabled Task Scheduler no problem so far. But i had to use a Tool to do that. Its here Tweak for Windows 7 | PC Tips Please do in your own risk ...

Thank you very much ! Capt.Jack Sparrow,

I will definitely have a look ther later look in order examine that an to stop that win 7 Schedule insanity !

Cheers!

p.s. I have no idea how two identical posts of mine have manged to get here.
To mods: please remove one of them