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.Hey Y’all,
I stumbled across this today when looking through my scheduled tasks:
Googling says it should be safe to disable and/or delete but all the articles reference Windows versions prior to 10. Sure sounds like I should be able to trash it but we all know about unintended consequences! Anyone know for sure? 
Hi RG,
Thank you for the reminder. Up to now I have just been disabling it (with an AutoHotkey script which disables a whole bunch of tasks) with no apparent detrimental side effects. Why should it? I don’t use *any* Microsoft browsers ever nor RSS.
I meant to revisit this by re-enabling it then watching it with Sysinternals/TechNet’s Process Monitor (ProcMon*) when it was triggered, just to see what happens (like Network, Process and Filesystem activity).
Unfortunately I just forgot… so your post was very timely.
IMO it’s always better to disable a task then re-visit it later before perhaps deleting the task completely. This is one of those tasks that I’m confident I can delete. However, I’m just going to carry out a check with ProcMon first, purely for curiousity’s sake. 
Hope this helps…
*Which reminds me of something else… ProcMon was updated 10 days ago and I haven’t yet downloaded that either. So much to do, too little time.
Alex,
The download link in the article you posted results in a 404! Googling turns up a Python program on GitHub but I don’t have Python. Suggestions?
The link worked for me on FF 84. And that SysInternals updater from Ghacks is a nifty little helper.
https://www.ghacks.net/2011/01/11/sysinternals-updater/
(The last update listed is February 16, 2017 )
EDIT: Ah, the follow-on link at ghacks to http://www.wieldraaijer.nl/others.html is a 404. I’ll look around for another download site too.
(too late to edit my last post):
The download of SysInternals v2.04 from Softpedia seems Ok, Web of Trust lists as safe, and i just scanned it with Superantispyware and Windows Defender which found no malware. It runs fine on my Win 10 v1809 to the current 20H2.
SysInternals Updater https://www.softpedia.com/get/Internet/Download-Managers/SysInternals-Updater.shtml
@RG,
I use a little portable program called Windows System Control Center. Several sets of utilities you can keep updated and run from the app.
--Joe
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