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I'm sure I'll be worth the trouble. SC.EXE and perhaps NirSoft's NIRCMD.EXE may help you at that. As well as a little hand from @jaclaz, of course! I bet you'll get it working sooner than you imagine!

Well, I was thinking about this kind of thing, when I wrote my previous post. Now it seems you've got to set about creating a "deleting scheduled task" (more properly a "scavenging scheduled task"), isn't it?

If that works, great! However, my reasoning was: if the thing gets recreated, there's someone doing it. Of course, that "someone" is not a person, but it must be a system agent aka "service". And, since I have my own degree of paranoia, it ocurred to me the worst case ought to be if the service in question were some you'd not want to disable, like the "Windows Defender" background service, whatever its name may be on Win 8. In that case, creating a "deleting scheduled task" might be the only possible workaround. Then again, there are many rosier scenarios that can be envisaged, besides the pessimistic one I just described. At the end of the day, only your careful experimenting and tweaking may lead us to know which is the case. But it sure is an interesting problem I'll be sure to kepp following. Unfortunately, I can not contribute with experiments myself, because I don't own any Win 8 at the moment, and, at work they went on to 8.1 already (and I'd have to root the system, which I'd rather not do)... OTOH, of course, I'm grateful they've stopped at 8.1 at work and did not jump into the ugly juggernaut of Win 10!

Well, you can always create a scheduled task (as trusted installer) to delete any scheduled task named "Scheduled Start" and have it run every quarter-hour. It can be a script using sc.exe run from a minimized cmd box. or something like that. In any case, althoug running 4 times per hour it'll use very little processor time, so it's a viable workaround. Just my 2¢, of course.

Is the above info maybe useful? I wouldn't know 'cause I've never used any outlook (not even outlook express)... The spammer who provided it, however, was obliterated as usual...

Done, thanks! Well, yes, the very nature of the webpages already introduce some uncertainity as links change, pages die and even with the ginormous effort done by the Internet Archive, things fall into the memory hole without being actually intentionally thrown there. Besides this (which is, after all, due to entropy growing), we do have lots of cases of things very deliberately thrown into the memory hole, but it all becomes really outrageous when some agent (usually a corporation or other non-physical entity) reaches inside one's device at one's home or inside one's pocket to remove (pilfer?) content from inside it, no matter what kind of licence they purportedly have allowing them to do it legally (if at all).

It's not the 1st time involving amazon, though, maybe it's already becoming a habit. That's why I abhor autoupdate, remote support (by corporations, at least, not from friends one trusts) and the cloud in general... remember the matter quoted below?

With the newest voice-recognition technology, they don't type anymore: they fart in Morse-code, instead! Now you know why it smells so bad!

Considering the assumptions in my older posts quoted below remain mostly valid and that most new internet users do so on smartphones... The last time I've estimated the size of the full PC universe, as you can see in the quotation above, I came to 2 billion machines. Let's assume it didn't grow any, just for the sake of simplicity, and that means 5.66% of 2x109 = 113x106 machines or, in other words, there's still a minimum of about 100 million XP users today, not counting the true POSReady and related machines, which purportedly don't browse the web, so that they don't get counted by netmarketshare. So no, not at all, we're still very far from being the last half-a-score of XP users in the world!!! ... we should still have a desktop user universe of not more (probably somewhat less) than 2 billion users. Now: 3.19% x 2 x109 = 6.38 x107 & 2.51% x 2 x109 = 5.02 x107 ... to get to an estimate that minimizes our ignorance, let's take the geometric mean of those two values and we get 5.66 x107, which means there should still be some 50 million XP users today, which is not bad, considering we're 6 months away from POSReady 2009 EoS.

Hrm... I don't know where you got those numbers from. The one I think best is Netmarketshare, which numbers are somewhat higher, although agreeing in general with your numbers, except for the fact they didn't detect Win 10 surpassing Win 7 yet, which I do think is more realist. See:

Don't hold your breath: they're not even trying to give a damn...

If that happens someone'll instantly find a patch to some file equivalent to update.exe on XP, to ignore the "ApplicabilityInfo" while installing, and that'll be it... or find a .REG setting to spoof Embedded, just like the POSReady trick. No reason to worry, it'll be all right, you'll see!

What about @NoelC's ReTweaker?

No. 2021 actually. Windows Embedded POSReady 7 updates just work on 7. It's EoS is at the end of 2021.

Banned for Rule #1 violation.

+1. Let's let Roy concentrate solely on that, which is of paramount importance to both XP and Vista communities.

We have been progressively disabling unsafe ciphers in recent years... I bet if you enable SSL 2.0 and 3.0 and TLS 1.0 on IE and then try to access the router again using IE it'll connect without complaining. Just a guess, but I'm pretty confident I hit jackpot. Try it please, and let me know.

What's NSTDiagSvc_New.exe? Whence did you get it?

Diversity is, and always will be, a good thing!

... *and*... 5) Never forget to wear your own Velostat cap while browsing the web!

Banned for violation of Rule #1 on 1st post...

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@theelf: Isn't it clearly evident to you, yet, that whatever your issue is, it's not the browser itself that's causing it?