Old tasks in Task Scheduler

[Michael]

When opening up Task Scheduler there are several tasks in the task scheduler
library that seem to be leftovers. For instance:

Name/Status/triggers/Next Run Time/Last Run time ....
{41BCA710-8211-4323-AC4E-614F807A7A1E} / Ready / When the task is created or
modified / -blank- / 4/3/2007 ....

Each of the tasks triggers C:\Windows\system32\pcalua.exe with different
parameters (eg. -a E:\install.exe -d E:\ )

First glance is that these are some type of attempt to invoke some type of
compatibility activity (pcalua is Program Compatibility assistant from MS).

Question of the moment is what are the consequences of removing these
entries (I have 8 of them) ?

Thanks,
Michael

 

[Guest]

Hi Michael,

I just noticed several of these today as well.

Havn't found an answer yet (havn't looked too deep), but for now I just set
mine to "Disabled" to see what happens. Mine point to pcalua.exe + a couple
different installers/uninstallers.

I'm thinking perhaps they are Vista compatability adjustments of some kind?

 

[Michael]

I removed them,
No effects (adverse or otherwise) noted.

Michael