In Windows 7-10, there are at least three known stubborn scheduled tasks:
One is located in "Microsoft\Windows\SettingSync", called
BackgroundUploadTask.
The 2nd is located in "Microsoft\Windows\Device Setup", called
Metadata Refresh.
The 3rd is located in "Microsoft\Windows\DeviceDirectoryClient", called
IntegrityCheck.
These tasks are enabled by default (status
Ready), and cannot be disabled by any regular means. Microsoft made sure of that. They also hide what these tasks actually do. Annoying and suspicious, yes...
The
BackgroundUploadTask task is present in all recent Windows OSs - starting from Windows 7 up to Windows 10.
The
Metadata Refresh and
IntegrityCheck tasks are present in Windows 10.
How to disable them: The easy user-friendly way (recommended)
- First we need to download an app which will allow us to run Computer Management (compmgmt.msc) as the super-duper TrustedInstaller, which has actual FULL system-wide privileges, even more then the Administrator. One such free app is PowerRun (963.54KB ZIP file), which includes both 32bit and 64it flavors.
- Extract the ZIP file to a favorite location, and run PowerRun.exe or PowerRun_x64.exe, according to your system type.
- Click on the "Add File" icon, type compmgmt.msc in the "File Location" field and press the "Apply List" button.
- Now press the "Play" button, and voila - Computer Management will open, but this time you can change/disable anything you want, without restriction.
