Sven, I am sorry....I really do know better than that! Anyway, I am running Windows 98 and I originally activated it thru the "Scheduled Tasks" window. If you need more info don't hesitate to ask! THANKS! Alice At 4/21/02 08:33 PM, you wrote: >Alice, > >More information is needed. What operating system (OS) do you have and >where/how did you scheduled the task to run? > >Sven Swanson, Sr. > >----- Original Message ----- >From: Alice L. Blankenship >To: [log in to unmask] >Sent: Saturday, April 20, 2002 10:38 PM >Subject: [PCSOFT] Microsoft Critical Update > >I have a very annoying problem that I hope you can help me with. I set >the Microsoft Critical Update task to run a while back and for my own >reasons I want it to stop checking. Well I have tried every way I could >think of >to get rid of this from the task scheduler, including deleting, and >setting the run time 10 yrs in the future and setting it so it was in the >past. It would temporarily disable it, but the next time I boot, its back >again >with my original settings. It goes off every evening while I'm in the >middle of working and is driving me nuts. I had it on my computer at work >and I >merely deleted the task and its never come back any more. Why won't my >personal computor do the same? PLEASE HELP! > > "Hold No Punches.." Rode brings you great shareware/freeware > programs with his honest opinions in this weekly column. > http://freepctech.com/rode Alice Blankenship 440-599-2329 (All email & attachments are scanned with Norton's 2002 AntiVirus for everyone's protection) PCSOFT maintains many useful files for download visit our download web page at: http://freepctech.com/downloads.shtml