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Re: Sneaky Adobe Flash Player Background Updater said by Libra:Thank you Jupitermoon and JALevinworth. This time I saw the Adobe Updater in the top center window and that gave me a dialog. (I was looking for it on the left side and still don't see it there). I went into services.msc and disabled the Adobe Updater and then deleted it from Task Scheduler.
I have two more computers to fix. This really stinks, especially since Adobe will probably do this with every update.
Is Systernals AutoRuns very complicated to use?
Thank you very much.
Sincerely, Libra
I still don't know why you can't see it on the left pane under the task scheduler library heading, but glad you could at least get to it in the summary portion to remove it.
The AutoRuns program is very straight forward. The program is a self contained .exe (no installation program, run from it's single .exe). Off my head, I believe all the Systernals tools are the same as well. The screen shot in the linked post and at the link is the entire interface allowing you a quick view to running programs, services, startup items, tasks, etc. Some of these items may not be visible to you in their respective interfaces (if they have one) so AutoRuns works well to make them all visible and in one place. From there you can either disable it (uncheck) or outright delete items.
The Systernals tools are key in my arsenal. If you haven't used any, I'd highly recommend TCPView (a straight forward connections viewer), Process Explorer (view/manage running programs same as Task Manager, but with added info and abilities) as a good starting point too. These both are self contained .exe's to run.
No problem, Libra. Glad to help.
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| said by JALevinworth :The Systernals tools are key in my arsenal. If you haven't used any, I'd highly recommend TCPView (a straight forward connections viewer), Process Explorer (view/manage running programs same as Task Manager, but with added info and abilities) as a good starting point too. These both are self contained .exe's to run.
One nice feature in autoruns and process explorer is that you can right click then search online and the program will automatically look up the file/process/service. It really helps save time being able to right click search online. I'm sure you know this, but was just throwing that out for those that might not know.
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| said by Lagz:One nice feature in autoruns and process explorer is that you can right click then search online and the program will automatically look up the file/process/service. It really helps save time being able to right click search online. I'm sure you know this, but was just throwing that out for those that might not know.
I actually had a difficult time coming up with a brief top level description of these tools with so many key benefits that came to mind that make them pretty much indispensable (to me). |
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