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win: improve disabling of scheduled tasks
This commit: - Reduces false-positive error messages when disabling scheduled tasks. E.g., `ERROR: The specified task name ... does not exist in the system.` - Centralizes and unifies the logic for disabling scheduled tasks. - Adds additional documentation, including the existence status of tasks on default installations. - Updates and improves the scripts that disable scheduled tasks. - Improves consistency of headers in documentation text by removing the top margin introduces by headers. Introduces `DisableScheduledTask` templating function: - It provides a unified way of disabling scheduled tasks. - It displays user-friendly messages if a task cannot be found. - It can now handle multiple tasks found matching a pattern. - The script now exits with the correct error code. - It skips enable/disable actions if it's not necessary. Improve existing scripts: - 'Disable Google update services': - Rename to 'Disable Google background automatic updates'. - Add missing scheduled tasks observed in newer versions of Chrome. - Change the recommendation for disabling certain tasks to `Strict`, as they may interfere with Google Credential Provider as side-effect. - Separate into more categories/scripts for better granularity and documentation. - 'Disable Adobe Acrobat update services': - Rename to 'Disable Adobe background automatic updates'. - Separate into more categories/scripts for enhanced granularity and documentation. - Remove end-of-life `Adobe Flash Player Updater` scheduled task and `adobeflashplayerupdatesvc`. - 'Disable Dropbox automatic update services': - Rename to 'Disable Dropbox background automatic updates'. - Seperate into more categories/scripts. - 'Disable Webcam Telemetry (`devicecensus.exe`)': - Rename to 'Disable census data collection'. - Add the disabling of the "Device User" task under it. - 'Disable `devicecensus.exe` (telemetry) process': - Rename to 'Disable device and configuration data collection tool'. - 'Disable Nvidia telemetry services': - Rename to 'Disable Nvidia telemetry scheduled tasks'. - Converted into a category for better granularity. - Improve documentation. - 'Disable Defender tasks': - Rename to 'Disable Defender scheduled tasks'. - 'Disable "Windows Defender ExploitGuard" task': - Rename to 'Disable "ExploitGuard MDM policy Refresh" task'. - 'Remove Nvidia telemetry tasks': - Rename to 'Remove Nvidia telemetry packages', as "tasks" often refers to scheduled tasks. - 'Disable Microsoft Office Subscription Heartbeat' - Rename to 'Disable "Microsoft Office Subscription Heartbeat" task'. - Remove disabling of the undocumented `Office 16 Subscription Heartbeat` task. - 'Disable OneDrive scheduled tasks': - Improve documentation. - Add disabling of 'OneDrive Per-Machine Standalone Update' task. - 'Disable Customer Experience Improvement Program' - Rename to 'Disable "Customer Experience Improvement Program" scheduled tasks' for clarity.
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