JethroUK©

I have desktop PC and only one monitor and I can't see why i need to run it
*ever* and yet this task is in my scheduler programmed to run every time
anyone logs on - and it's been running now for 17 hours continuous????

Do i need this task to run?

There seems to be dozens of these 'apparently' unnecessary tasks being
performed - e.g. 'mcupdate' checks for media centre updates (which i never
use) - even if i did a check once per month would be sufficient - but this
is scheduled to run every - single - day

does this explain why i don't have enough processing power left to open an
explorer window in under 20 seconds despite having 4 times the power of my
ol XP machine?

Are there any tasks known to be useless that i can disable? and hopefully
speed up my machine