Help: 90+ taskeng.exe
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OK, after a few hours of work, I found the problem myself. It has to do with a failing scheduled task for the IE feed reader which runs every 5 minutes.
I have Vista RC1 SP1 Refresh installed, so I'm not sure if that was a related cause....
Anyway, here's the solution:
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Go to the start menu.
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Type task scheduler and press enter.
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Press continue on the UAC popup.
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In the left pane of task scheduler, underneath Task Scheduler Local, right-click on Task Scheduler Library.
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In the view submenu, make sure the Show Hidden Tasks option is checked.
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Widen the name column in the center pane. The hidden task that is likely at fault has a name that starts with User_Feed_Synchronization followed by a dash and a bunch of digits inside a curly brace.
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Select the scheduled task in the middle pane by clicking on its name.
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To verify that this task is creating all those taskeng.exe processes, select the History tab in the middle pane near the middle of the screen. If you expand out the Level and Date and Time Columns, you should see a bunch of errors and date and times that are 5 minutes apart. If that's the case, then this task is the problem.
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On the rightmost pane of the task scheduler, select Disable.
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There may be more than one scheduled task like this (relating to feeds), so you'd need to disable any or all that were causing problems.
That worked for me, anyway. Let me know how it goes...hope that helped!
Nick Hain
Melbourne, Australia
- Proposed as answer by alterself Friday, May 15, 2009 2:13 PM
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Thx man! This taskeng-behaviour was driving me nuts...
Posted my own question in the forum, but got no reply...
Should have digged a little deeper... earlier on...
My install was not a RC candidate of SP1, but the full version!
grtz
Marcel
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Nick,
Thanks for this advice above, but I'm having a slightly different problem; but still related.
I'm running Home Premium Vista on my M1330 xps (I know I know!) and I can't seem to switch it off without it telling me that Taskeng is running still. It gives me the option to Shut Down Now or Cancel. Strangely, both these options have the same outcome... the computer switches off.
I followed your instruction above, but I'm still having the same problem. Any thought at all would be HUGELY appreciated.
Many thanks
Neil
SCRATCH THAT! I've fixed it!
The problem was with a piece of software I recently downloaded (Xneat), which once removed instantly solved the problem.
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Thanks for your reply harpersneil.Well, this really took me HOURS to solve.I set up this computer brand new to days ago and installed quite a lot software so I couldn't remember which software caused this issue.So I nearly deinstalled and reinstalled each peace of software without any success.I thought it must have to do with monitor or multi monitor software similar to yours (I use ultramon) - my active tasks in the task planer finally showed me the TMM task which I deactivated - unfortunately again without any change.The other interesting one still running was the SystemSoundsService - so I googled a little. Some others wrote about the explorere.exe not closing at shutdown according with a sounds problem.Then I finally got it - must have been with one of the latest vista updates that two new sound themes are available: Ultimate Extras Glass and Ultimate Extras Pearls - both of them cause the taskeng.exe not to close correctly at shutdown. Probably because the shutdown sound file is too long, when the computer uses to shut down very quickly.Please excuse my english - I'm from Austria But I hope this helps others having the same problem..So using the no sounds theme or the standard Windows theme solved my problemNeverlands
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Nerverlands,
Wow, you realy had a lot of trouble with this! I'm sorry to hear that, but I'm pleased that you've finally solved the problem.
For the record, your English is very good, no complaints at all!
Enjoy your new computer, I'm glad I could have helped.
Regards
Neil
