microsoft.public.windowsxp.security_admin

There IS need for discussion, if it sounds like your trying to get around
someone else's security they have set up, or circumvent your network admins
policies, you won't get much help here, and by your answers it sounds like
that is exactly what your attempting to do.

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"BBran" wrote in message
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> There really is no need for discussion, just looking for a solution. Not
> interested in an uninstall, I'll try the security policies.
>
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> "VanguardLH" wrote in message
> news:euJeD7nmIHA.4480@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...
>> BBran wrote:
>>
>>> I just want to stop a program from automatically starting. It is a
>>> scheduled task in an Antivirus program scheduled within that program. I
>>> cannot change the settings to stop the task because it is password
>>> protected
>>> and I can't get the password. So I want to stop it from running unless
>>> I
>>> manually start it. So, I don't want to either rename the extension or
>>> delete the file.
>>
>> So it really isn't your property and the real owner installed AV
>> software with a schedule that you don't happen to like on THEIR
>> computer. Ask your parents or your employer for the password to change
>> the schedule.
>>
>> You could uninstall the AV software (and install your own) but then if
>> it is not your computer then you are probably not an admin-level user to
>> do uninstalls and installs.
>>
>> You can use security policies to define software restrictions to prevent
>> a particular executable from running but then you would have to be an
>> admin-level user to define that policy, and if you were an admin-level
>> user then you could just uninstall the problematic software in the first
>> place.
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