Option

Normally the Active Task Manager displays an icon in the Taskbar Notification Area (also known as Tray).

The automatic start mode is on.

The automatic mode is switched off.

The right button click on this icon will display the Active Task Manager Menu, and the double click of the left button will open Settings dialog.

If during the start of Active Task Manager the scheduled moment of the next start of a task already has passed, the ATM will act according to the setting of the option Don't execute, if the moment already passed.

Normally the Active Task Manager starts automatically as a Windows service during the system startup. It lets your tasks to be started even on a computer with no interactive user. To be able to run your tasks the ATM needs a Windows account on behalf of which to run tasks.

If you don't want the ATM to start automatically, click the "Stop Scheduling" item of either ATM tray menu or File menu of the ATM settings window. To enable scheduling again just start the ATM from the Windows Start menu.